Marcy Chevali
My work is often repetitious, process based and time consuming. It depends on the accretion of a simple shape through process. The forms that I make are translucent and vulnerable. There is a certain handmade, drawn quality to the forms giving them a slightly hesitant or delicate look. I often turn to a net or grid structure with glass, wire, thread or pencil. A net is semipermeable, allowing some things to pass through but not others. It separates fish from water, butterflies from the wind, trapeze artists from the ground and allows them to be gathered, carried away. A net keeps small groups separate.
When formed into a net, glass rods, wire or thread becomes stronger, occupying more dimensions and have the ability to expand. Although they divide space, both sides are easily visible. The work oscillates between disappearance and infinity.
My work is made up of personal metaphors through shape, materials or relationship to context. Although it is often deeply personal, my hope is that a viewer can relate through their own experience but also often on a political, universal or shared emotion.