M. Huddlestun

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2024-25 2023 2022 2020-21

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Beyond is a body of work which functions as a collection of living myths, sciences, dialogues, and documents. Each work displays and is informed by the presence of overlapping and interconnected webs of cosmic ecologies and (super)natural histories; reckoning with the function of the pictorial plane as a space where content is at once summoned, represented, chronicled, and transformed. In this way the work engages with its subject on multiple levels, understanding the work as a dynamic presence which saturates and transmutes its surface as well as a living artifact born from its own documentation.

A process of generative toil and care undertaken in the breaths between crises and immense personal growth, the creation of Beyond is entangled with evolving relationships between grief, natural processes, magic, and medicine. Beyond treats the gallery walls as a support in themselves, the work’s presence disrupting the continuity of the space in order to transpose its own spatial context into the pre-existing context of the physical gallery. Each piece treats material and composition as elemental and animate, engaging with the tangible work as a means of accessing what is embodied within the work and by extension entering in a fruitful and reciprocal relationship.

Beyond’s creation and presence exists in a liminal state, a form of extant preservation and decay. Wayfinding through temporal, familial, and phenomenal spaces in the sphere of its artist while existing autonomously within their own evolving systems of life and lore. The existence of Beyond as an open gallery reaches into the space within which it was created to sustain a living architecture; a castle, a home, a sanctuary, and a place of remembrance. It is built from glittering fragments of insight both intimately personal and universally expansive; comfortably paradoxical in its existence here, within, and beyond.