ABSTRACT ARTWORK BY SERIES

STAND IN SERIES

Stand In Project: This project is an active, ongoing project exploring through 'stuff'  the fleeting, hard-to-pin down aspects of human experience. These sculptural works are essentially poems about  fleeting impressions and experiences, translated into physical materials. A wooden block here is places for every instance of 'saying what's true' that occurred in 'A Visit with you.' A fake flower pedal stands in for each instance of physical contact on 'My Father's Last Day.'

YOU ARE LEGEND SERIES

You Are Legend:  This project explores the boundary between interior personal experience and the objects in the world that we interact with a share as experience. 

​In this series of works, a small legend, like the legend on a map,  is placed in a room with viewer, in a lobby, historic museum, anywhere where a visitor might linger or wait. An image of 5-7 objects that are present in the room with the viewer, is listed on a legend-like sign, next to a phrase invoking a personal interior sensation, feeling, or thought; for example, the image of an exit sign above the viewer's head is paired on the legend with the phrase 'the feeling of the inside of your pocket.' 

VISUAL TRACES SERIES

In this series, I explore what's actually happening in a given space by recording in a colorful type of visual raw data, each repeating event.

I and volunteer observers, note repeating experiences we witness in the space in which the installation will go up. The repeating events, a sip of a beverage, steps taken, a particular gesture, the use of a specific phrase, are then translated into physical materials in the space: one type of bright yellow tape for example, is placed for each smile seen. A legend in the form of a list, pairs the specific marks with each specific happening so the viewer can explore it at varying levels of depth. 

ATTENDANT SERIES

In Attendant, I am interested in learning: If we're in the same place at the same time, are we having the same experience?
​Blocks or adhesive marks, are used by participants to record in real time, for a set interval of say, an hour, one personal experience like hearing a specific sound, thinking a thought, or some kind of interaction, like eye contact. The work is the performance, the photo document, and the exit interview with each participant. 

ARTIST BOOK SERIES

These artist books are conceptual art projects, three of them on the theme of open, non-religious prayer, and one a compendium of the chemical elements. These books are a lateral dive for the reader, with artwork on every page, that explores a deeply abstract subject in a simple, concretized format. In Elements: a love letter to all things everywhere, there is a playful hand drawn map of the places in the known universe where and element can be encountered, from your body to a thunderstorm. In the books of prayer, an abstract form replaces a word like God, sidestepping the beliefs that usually predicate the action of prayer. In both cases, the reader is invited into direct connection with something abstract and generally inaccessible to laypeople.  Hannah finds that artist books are a very accessible and affordable form in which to create conceptual artwork, and she continues to make them.