Crow, 2024. From Heather Rule's Bag Head series. Ceramic and paper. 19x11.5x9 inches.
Heather Rule is a multidisciplinary artist from Toronto primarily working in sculpture and stop-motion animation. Her most recent work looks at the intersection of memoir and self-portraiture and plays with the tension between permanence and ephemerality in how we construct our personal histories.
Heather uses .....combinations of ceramic and paper materials to create embodied forms that appear ephemeral and changeable. With the impermanent and familiar materiality of brown paper, the heads of these sculptures evoke the fragmentary precision of certain persistent memories, equally vulnerable to change over time. Arms extend from their more corporeal ceramic pedestals, sometimes reaching out or gesturing to one another as if they are communicating, or at least keeping each other company. Together they form a collection of images in conversation, drawing out connections between seemingly disparate parts. There is a sort of tenderness and care to these objects. Now I am thinking, feeling, reflecting. No, this is not how this is supposed to go. — excerpt from Bridget Moser, Homebodies exhibition for Patel Brown, 2024.
