Alexandra Hammond
My multidisciplinary practice spans painting, installation and conversational performances. I believe that all beings, objects and Earth inter-are and inter-be. We can conceptualize this interbeing as an all-encompassing background that is also the foreground. My work trains our awareness to this background - that which is sometimes invisible or ignored, but is the field from which everything arises. This background manifests as landscape, the quality of transparency, underlying story, or the emotional experiences of the body. I employ the specificity of images and manners as an invitation into an awareness of the undifferentiated - pure consciousness, endless possibility, blue sky.
Want to contact? email me alex@alexhammondstudio.comWhat is your relationship with the museum if you are also a museum?
Museum of Me is a participatory performance and guided visualization that enhances awareness in museum visitors. A group of participants is invited to sit with me, the artist and guide, for 12 minutes of visualization followed by 10 minutes of structured reflection.
The intention of this project is to empower citizens to be active co-creators of knowledge and meaning. Museum of Me encourages visitors to envision their own bodies as sites for the production of cultural narratives and knowledge. This intentional use of imagination taps into their own sensations, emotions and perspectives so that they can be fully conscious and present with the art they will encounter in the museum galleries.
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Alexandra Hammond created a photo project 2 years, 8 months ago