Victoria O O'May Alves
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Victoria O'May Alves has always been intrigued by how lives and identities are made up of a series of arbitrary events and circumstances—biological, social, geographic, environmental, and so on—yet people are constantly improvising and choreographing their paths with every decision they make. These choices, not always their own, are like tiny dots that make up the lines that will ultimately shape their lives as individuals, as a society, and as beings on this Earth. Everyone is inhabiting one of many possibilities of existence.
Her work investigates and inhabits these concepts of determinism and free will by forging an unplanned starting point and, from that, uncovering which of the many possibilities each piece wants to become. Each piece represents a crystallised set of decisions, shaped by emotional resonance and deliberate choices regarding the formal aspects of the work, informed by her background in graphic design and art direction. It becomes one crystallised version of its many possibilities, much like individuals, the world, reality, and the shared future.
Motherhood plays a pivotal role in her work, creating boundaries as well as a source of inspiration and a constant invitation to play and trust intuition. Her choice of material is deeply impacted by it; she works with very few elements at a time, using materials that are familiar, domestic, and readily available, such as paper, scraps, thread, ink, coloured pencils and digital. These materials reflect the environment and the human scale in which life and the artwork are unfolding, lending themselves to meditative repetition and serendipity.
This creates a space for her to pursue her concern and curiosity for themes such as the nature of identity, choice, and chance, alongside the constant impulse to bend nature and ourselves into apparent order.
Her work investigates and inhabits these concepts of determinism and free will by forging an unplanned starting point and, from that, uncovering which of the many possibilities each piece wants to become. Each piece represents a crystallised set of decisions, shaped by emotional resonance and deliberate choices regarding the formal aspects of the work, informed by her background in graphic design and art direction. It becomes one crystallised version of its many possibilities, much like individuals, the world, reality, and the shared future.
Motherhood plays a pivotal role in her work, creating boundaries as well as a source of inspiration and a constant invitation to play and trust intuition. Her choice of material is deeply impacted by it; she works with very few elements at a time, using materials that are familiar, domestic, and readily available, such as paper, scraps, thread, ink, coloured pencils and digital. These materials reflect the environment and the human scale in which life and the artwork are unfolding, lending themselves to meditative repetition and serendipity.
This creates a space for her to pursue her concern and curiosity for themes such as the nature of identity, choice, and chance, alongside the constant impulse to bend nature and ourselves into apparent order.
Victoria O'May Alves has always been intrigued by how lives and identities are made up of a series of arbitrary events and circumstances—biological, social, geographic, environmental, and so on—yet people are constantly improvising and choreographing their paths with every decision they make. These choices, not always their own, are like tiny dots that make up the lines that will ultimately shape their lives as individuals, as a society, and as beings on this Earth. Everyone is inhabiting one of many possibilities of existence.
Her work investigates and inhabits these concepts of determinism and free will by forging an unplanned starting point and, from that, uncovering which of the many possibilities each piece wants to become. Each piece represents a crystallised set of decisions, shaped by emotional resonance and deliberate choices regarding the formal aspects of the work, informed by her background in graphic design and art direction. It becomes one crystallised version of its many possibilities, much like individuals, the world, reality, and the shared future.
Motherhood plays a pivotal role in her work, creating boundaries as well as a source of inspiration and a constant invitation to play and trust intuition. Her choice of material is deeply impacted by it; she works with very few elements at a time, using materials that are familiar, domestic, and readily available, such as paper, scraps, thread, ink, coloured pencils and digital. These materials reflect the environment and the human scale in which life and the artwork are unfolding, lending themselves to meditative repetition and serendipity.
This creates a space for her to pursue her concern and curiosity for themes such as the nature of identity, choice, and chance, alongside the constant impulse to bend nature and ourselves into apparent order.
Her work investigates and inhabits these concepts of determinism and free will by forging an unplanned starting point and, from that, uncovering which of the many possibilities each piece wants to become. Each piece represents a crystallised set of decisions, shaped by emotional resonance and deliberate choices regarding the formal aspects of the work, informed by her background in graphic design and art direction. It becomes one crystallised version of its many possibilities, much like individuals, the world, reality, and the shared future.
Motherhood plays a pivotal role in her work, creating boundaries as well as a source of inspiration and a constant invitation to play and trust intuition. Her choice of material is deeply impacted by it; she works with very few elements at a time, using materials that are familiar, domestic, and readily available, such as paper, scraps, thread, ink, coloured pencils and digital. These materials reflect the environment and the human scale in which life and the artwork are unfolding, lending themselves to meditative repetition and serendipity.
This creates a space for her to pursue her concern and curiosity for themes such as the nature of identity, choice, and chance, alongside the constant impulse to bend nature and ourselves into apparent order.
Victoria O'May Alves has always been intrigued by how lives and identities are made up of a series of arbitrary events and circumstances—biological, social, geographic, environmental, and so on—yet people are constantly improvising and choreographing their paths with every decision they make. These choices, not always their own, are like tiny dots that make up the lines that will ultimately shape their lives as individuals, as a society, and as beings on this Earth. Everyone is inhabiting one of many possibilities of existence.
Her work investigates and inhabits these concepts of determinism and free will by forging an unplanned starting point and, from that, uncovering which of the many possibilities each piece wants to become. Each piece represents a crystallised set of decisions, shaped by emotional resonance and deliberate choices regarding the formal aspects of the work, informed by her background in graphic design and art direction. It becomes one crystallised version of its many possibilities, much like individuals, the world, reality, and the shared future.
Motherhood plays a pivotal role in her work, creating boundaries as well as a source of inspiration and a constant invitation to play and trust intuition. Her choice of material is deeply impacted by it; she works with very few elements at a time, using materials that are familiar, domestic, and readily available, such as paper, scraps, thread, ink, coloured pencils and digital. These materials reflect the environment and the human scale in which life and the artwork are unfolding, lending themselves to meditative repetition and serendipity.
This creates a space for her to pursue her concern and curiosity for themes such as the nature of identity, choice, and chance, alongside the constant impulse to bend nature and ourselves into apparent order.
Her work investigates and inhabits these concepts of determinism and free will by forging an unplanned starting point and, from that, uncovering which of the many possibilities each piece wants to become. Each piece represents a crystallised set of decisions, shaped by emotional resonance and deliberate choices regarding the formal aspects of the work, informed by her background in graphic design and art direction. It becomes one crystallised version of its many possibilities, much like individuals, the world, reality, and the shared future.
Motherhood plays a pivotal role in her work, creating boundaries as well as a source of inspiration and a constant invitation to play and trust intuition. Her choice of material is deeply impacted by it; she works with very few elements at a time, using materials that are familiar, domestic, and readily available, such as paper, scraps, thread, ink, coloured pencils and digital. These materials reflect the environment and the human scale in which life and the artwork are unfolding, lending themselves to meditative repetition and serendipity.
This creates a space for her to pursue her concern and curiosity for themes such as the nature of identity, choice, and chance, alongside the constant impulse to bend nature and ourselves into apparent order.
