Temperate Grasslands

Featuring: Maria Fernanda Barrero, Hollis Hammonds, Ryan Hawk, J Paul Jackson, Jieun Beth, Betelhem Makonnen, Paloma Mayorga, MuthaGoose, L. Renee Nunez, Dawn Okoro, Nazia Parvez, Sara Vanderbeek, and Cheyenne Weaver.

Temperate Grasslands (Austin Texas’ Biome) emerged from a simple, imperative thought, “I want a garden”.

A garden meant a space where I could gather beautiful objects, nature, and life. Organic forms and colors I’ve never quite appreciated; shapes that would make me look twice before knowing what they are. I wanted to feel smaller. To forget how heavy it feels to be a human. Knowing my shape and colors is one of infinity. I want flowers, animals, air, and empty space. Some natural roughness; one that molds couldn’t replicate. Perfect Imperfections.
Mainly it seemed important to be surrounded by a landscape created by artists; To fit within its weird beauty.
Feel imagined as part of their creation. I wanted to be in that context, an expression of art.

I’d also like you to be with me. I want you to feel pretty.
To know you are beauty within itself, worthy of being admired like art.

Come on and play!