1 Haunted, 2011
Watercolor with watercolor pencil
38 × 50 in. (97 × 127 cm)
Hannah Ward’s art grapples with the fusion of dualities: She is interested in relationships linking beauty and mutation, fragility and preservation, birth and decay, along with the myriad of processes in between. Her works reference dream imagery, childhood memories, and taxidermy. The woodland animals in her own surroundings have provided the artist with much of her inspiration. “These animals—deer, foxes, and rodents—form a totemic language through which I understand my environment,” notes Ward. “Their forms suggest the vulnerability of the body and the ease with which it can be overwhelmed or transformed. My work is a conglomeration of the elegant and the bitter, of power and helplessness, of guilt and necessity. Within these accumulations of fur, tissue, and eyes, these creatures and forms have become my justification for a world that naturally blends hope and suffering. They are primal sensations of curiosity—the moments I’ve not yet found words for.”
1 Haunted, 2011
Watercolor with watercolor pencil
38 × 50 in. (97 × 127 cm)
