Artist Statement

A student of contraction and expansion, Veronica (she/they) makes what’s heavy light — studying catharsis and intimacy to expand possibility. Vero lives a genre defying life, collaging until completion, stitching together various mediums until even the darkest corners of an idea have been explored.

Veronica creates as a ritual of devotion. She is committed to the global healing: returning the mind to the body and tending to reciprocity with all beings. They hope their work contributes to illuminating how Western technoculture suppresses the radical potential of human creativity, collaboration, and spirit, while also imagining alternatives.

Anti-disciplinary Art & the Path Towards Wholeness

Video / Animation

Stop-motion or animation with physical objects: In moving physical forms do we liberate them?

Jewelry

Writing

Performance

It feels right to start with performance because it was technically my first form of expression. My mom loves to remind me that my first words weren’t actually even words but "E-I-E-I-O" from the children’s nursery Old MacDonald.

Photography

Textiles

Playing the ugly duckling in 2nd grade

Corduroy patchwork jeans: when I sew it’s often for several weeks in a row every few years.

my grandma taught me to quilt. my first quilt was made out of all my old jeans.

Anatomical heart pendant made out of silver, bronze and copper: in 2016 I took a metal work class

Current of Manifestation

  • Pull of Soul and Body

  • Moves toward Form, Density, Boundaries, Contraction, & Individuality

Handbound journals 2017-2021: My professor Jeremy Chen taught us about commonplace books and had us bind our own during our first class at Grinnell; it forever changed how I learned because

Current of Liberation

  • Pull of Mind and Spirit

  • Moves toward Freedom, Expansion, Abstraction, & Universality