ELLEN PHILLIPS
My work is an extension of my experience, particularly of my inner experience of self search, change, and growth. Segments of that experience relate to current themes of thresholds, walls, barriers, boundaries, and passages that investigate physical spaces that impinge on inner psychological speces and allow an openness to the irrational. Squeezing this physical/psychological space forces confrontation with inner barriers built for self-protection, as well as with the boundary between the conscious and unconscious. These ephemeral barriers leave traces in memory and dream and pull from the collective unconscious.
The process of tapping the energy sources of the unconscious evolves through manipulation of materials. Processes of stacking, interweaving, meshing and their effects on dematerializes inner space give information on decision making an reveal thought patterns. The immaterial funds the material.
