EarthBear Art takes the beholder on a quiet journey: introducing the viewer to the experiences of another’s culture, time, and spirituality through metaphors that provide a bridge between the universally familiar and the less common or unfamiliar.

Her approach is one of “Classical Naturalism”. Each piece is created through a medium grounded in generations of one culture’s traditional practices to tell stories that transcend collective human experiences. They allow insight into another’s world views by creating a permeability between that which is familiar and the metaphors unique to other world views. Each piece reveals the fluid dynamic of the medium that has most often been limited to dimensions more focused on documentation than understanding.

Whether it is through the earthy strength of cotton or the ethereal, soft subtlety of bamboo, the viewer is ultimately invited to a place of thoughtful calm and a profound personal experience of culture and spirituality that are united through metaphor and material.