{"id":21272,"date":"2025-04-02T15:48:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T19:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=21272"},"modified":"2025-04-02T15:48:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T19:48:36","slug":"miryam-keller-artist-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/miryam-keller-artist-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Miryam Keller Artist Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2025\/04\/MiryamKeller_StatementRecording.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>bodies in time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using water, my work bridges our emotional and physical experiences in landscape, embracing the fluidity as a medium for remembrance, connection, and transformation. I create cyclical patterns that replicate those seen in the natural world through the interaction and movement of pigment in ocean water as it evaporates; warping the paper. This evolution is preserved in the growth of salt crystals, serving as a record of my sensual and emotional experience with a body of water, through collection and creation. Centering water as a metaphor for the unconscious, this work seeks to magnify the inherent beauty and power of the material as a means of exploration and expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I collect materials from ocean access points around the coast of Maine, primarily beaches that I frequented growing up. Each piece starts flat with a circle of water shaped by hand, as I am attracted to the gravity, imperfection, and meditation of the mandala. I apply various inks, pigments, and hand-crushed sediments; disrupting the water&#8217;s surface tension and illuminating the direction of movement below. Through my practice, I embrace the duality of control and surrender to merge intentional structure with organic dispersion. My process is an ever-evolving search to understand the consistent organization of matter across time, through the infinite yet centered possibilities of circular form. I draw from the work of Mary Weatherford, Eduardo Terrazas, Georgia O\u2019Keefe, and John James Audobonn regarding color and layer, geometry, limitation, and observational science.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I aim to create an environment of unstructured observation and stillness that invites presence and reflection. Through each individual atmosphere, I hope to draw attention to our relationship with bodies of water as a point of connection and communication. I am endlessly mesmerized by the depths of the underwater world, and as I go deeper into its mystery I find my internal world mirrored back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bodies in time Using water, my work bridges our emotional and physical&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-21272","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21274,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21272\/revisions\/21274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}