Julia M. Becker
flowebb

At Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT
July through October, 2005

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The process is experiential and intuitive, drawing on daily experiences. It involves all of me, all I know, dream, sense. It is the journey, the process, being lost, discovering, starting again. It is faith, and most of all, love. It is recognition and celebration of beauty, struggle, grace, chaos, connection, energy, the moment. It is telling of stories and asking questions. It is open eyes, heart, seeing, inside, outside, knowing and wondering. It is inherent curiosity and compassion. It is living, energy and warmth, pattern and glow, vulnerability and resistance, ebb and flow.

It is the antlered tree, is the artery, flow of blood. It is river, wrinkle of skin, fingerprint. It is the synapse, is creation, and transformation, cellular patterns of thought, dream, physicality, memory. It is the rock in hand, the mountain, ancient life history, projectile, melted and re-formed, the fossil record, electromagnetic polarizing vessel. It is gravity and flying, climbing trees into sky to sway in the wind. And planting seeds, one by one, pressing into the earth.

It is sun and growing and seasons cycling through our souls. It is you and everyone, this swirl of humanity in all its beauty and sadness, its love and madness, chaos and serenity. It is pool of green blue floating desert place, subway station graffiti goddess, smile of a stranger, and knowing we are all in this together; veined, wrapped, linked, merged, woven, the transformative evolution of this living.

Perhaps my work as an artist is merely the mapping of this journey, jotting down the routes and patterns, mileposts, crossings, pathways, topography. What happens to be recorded, what touches down, is inevitably random and inconsistent. Though certain paths or ways of traveling are retained, revisited, somehow remembered, otherwise discovered, and deeply, cherished.

Read Jessica Hunter Larson's essay on the exhibit Meditations on the Space In-Between: Julia M. Becker's Flowebb at The Drumlummon Institute's site.

Watch a QuickTime version of Julia's artist's talk
at the opening reception at Paris Gibson Square, July 20, 2005.
Time: 24:43