Stephanie Wenzel, Uni Bloom

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Stephanie Wenzel, Uni Bloom

Stephanie Wenzel

Uni Bloom
Wire mesh, wool, foam mat, spray foam, acrylic paint, pine lumber, resin, nylon rope, cardboard, cement, leather
15" x 37" x 19"

Website: swiggstudio.com
Instagram: @swiggstudio

About | Stephanie Wenzel’s work seeks to understand belonging, acceptance, presentation, illusion, assertion, confidence, doubt, exploration, and progress. How and when do we assert boundaries? When do we make space for dialogue? Bringing together different forms, colors, techniques, and materials helps create a language by which a visual narrative emerges static and rigid, or fluid and soft. The tactile exploration helps her investigate what cognitive thought alone cannot capture. Navigating through painful life experiences provided her access to the emotional content that she needed to pour into a sculptural practice. Wenzel asks herself, “Why do I want to put my emotions on display in a public place?” Ultimately, being vulnerable with each other is when the magic of understanding reveals itself.

Uni Bloom is part of the series “Coastal Cerebral Cortex Series.” The cerebral cortex plays a key role in our brains related to memory, thinking, learning, reasoning, problem-solving, emotions, consciousness, and functions related to the senses. How we organize the memories in our brain and what we put in our frontal lobe to navigate the everyday sometimes feels out of our control. Uni Bloom challenges the audience to question: If we recalculate the volume of the memories or have someone else do it for us, can we regain control of what we give our conscious thought access to?

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