Mirror Mind
Installation: Video, Sound, Sculpture, Archival Pigment Photographs
Kalin creates a space where images and materials converge and dissipate, revealing a kind of physical fragility that engages viewers with a sense of emotional transformation through video, sculpture and archival prints. Kalin calls her sculpture an ‘emo-amateur’; she has outlined the emo-amateur’s cast shadow to emphasize the armature's reflective shadows as emotional empowerment. The archival prints in this installation combine video stills with images from the house Kalin grew up in. By weaving these two images together the viewer experiences Kalin’s emotional reconstruction - seeing the images both separately and together. The video artwork projected onto the fringe creates a screen where the viewer can pass through, fragmenting the video performance. The video artwork is documentation of Kalin’s emotional reconstruction and focuses on the idea that body and cellular memory exist and can be reclaimed, remembered and reintroduced in a new way. She believes new neural pathways can be created for body and cellular memory that can bring greater emotional intelligence and awareness around trauma. She first constructs protective ‘emo-armatures’ to protect her from any emotional harm that could be revealed during the process. Then wearing the ‘emo-armatures’ she begins moving intuitively within the forest landscape - allowing her mind and body to sync together as she recalls past experiences and personal memories. In a way the mind and body move together in observational movements to the memories being recalled. The video acts as an artifact documenting this process. Kalin hopes that viewers will experience this process by walking through the video piece - both merging and separating the image and themselves.
Exhibition: Saranac Art Projects
Date: March 5th - March 26th, 2021
Location: 25 W Main Ave, Spokane, WA 99201, United States
Kalin creates a space where images and materials converge and dissipate, revealing a kind of physical fragility that engages viewers with a sense of emotional transformation through video, sculpture and archival prints. Kalin calls her sculpture an ‘emo-amateur’; she has outlined the emo-amateur’s cast shadow to emphasize the armature's reflective shadows as emotional empowerment. The archival prints in this installation combine video stills with images from the house Kalin grew up in. By weaving these two images together the viewer experiences Kalin’s emotional reconstruction - seeing the images both separately and together. The video artwork projected onto the fringe creates a screen where the viewer can pass through, fragmenting the video performance. The video artwork is documentation of Kalin’s emotional reconstruction and focuses on the idea that body and cellular memory exist and can be reclaimed, remembered and reintroduced in a new way. She believes new neural pathways can be created for body and cellular memory that can bring greater emotional intelligence and awareness around trauma. She first constructs protective ‘emo-armatures’ to protect her from any emotional harm that could be revealed during the process. Then wearing the ‘emo-armatures’ she begins moving intuitively within the forest landscape - allowing her mind and body to sync together as she recalls past experiences and personal memories. In a way the mind and body move together in observational movements to the memories being recalled. The video acts as an artifact documenting this process. Kalin hopes that viewers will experience this process by walking through the video piece - both merging and separating the image and themselves.
Exhibition: Saranac Art Projects
Date: March 5th - March 26th, 2021
Location: 25 W Main Ave, Spokane, WA 99201, United States
Dining Room - 30x20 Archival Pigment Print, Framed $350
