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marta lola staudinger

  • ARTWORK
  • series
    • field studies on standing tall
    • the hidden costs of wellness
    • portals + thresholds
    • currency? material, radiator
  • about +
    • artist
    • curator
    • cv
    • press
  • Curatorial+
    • auxilium continuum: reframing
    • (be)longing
    • Seed Scattering: Nicole Salimbene
    • Five Directions: Vessels: Julia Chon
    • Body Autonomy
    • In Bloom: Hoesy Corona
    • Coneflower Canopy: Phaan Howng
    • SEEN/UNSEEN: Linda Stein and Mil Lubroth
    • Latela Curatorial: 2015-present
    • The Silva Gallery: 2021-present
    • GLB Memorial Fund for the Arts: collecting since 2020
    • See Support Collect: 2020-present
  • connect
  • substack
  • shop +
    • fine art prints shop
    • photography on silk
    • mini photographs

Currency in the Marshes

Photographs from this shoot available for purchase as a 13 x 20 in. print, edition 1 of 10, here.

Info about the work:

These mini sculptures are prototypes for large-scale sculptures. They represent the many conceptual thresholds we are invited to cross over as we heal and become.

Portals and thresholds are structural and conceptual archetypes of personal growth and awakening consciousness. They can be related to the courage to lean in or step through a phase or chapter in one’s life. Portals are also representative of the psyche’s maturity.

I’ve photographed these portals in various landscapes. Placing these works in conversation with Earth’s landscapes feels like a coming home, coalescence of natural and feminine elements, and a reminder to slow down and archive essence.

This work is part of my Portals & Thresholds series

Each photograph has a deeper conceptual meaning, depending which portal prototype was used as each prototype was named as part of a narrative in Currency? Material, Radiator.

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