Emily Nachison.
My artwork explores the human perception of nature and transformation. Mythology, scientific history and New-Age idealism become starting points for an investigation into the cultural creation of landscape.
This series of work, titled Conversion, investigates the transformation of matter. Both installations, Hall of Conversion and Crystalline Conversion are comprised of suspended glass apothecary dishes. Each dish balances a cast glass sculptural piece that shares the exact same weight and volume as the rest. The glass pieces shape shift from one form to the next, illustrating natural cycles of growth and decay, while retaining the same volumetric proportion. This work serves as a reflection of our ever-changing, yet never dying, world. Our world is one of transformation and not destruction.