Madeline Marak

Taking from my immediate surroundings, I create representations of the land spaces I inhabit. I explore the space where humans and nature interact, where built and natural environments collide to create a negotiated interspace of the urban environment. Through painting, photography, textiles, and drawing, I represent the land and my exploration of it. I am motivated by my own human-nature and the impulse to represent, recreate, capture, and cultivate natural things. My work delves into the tactility of land and reveals a yearning for an engagement with the physical. Through multiple mediums, processes, framing and reframing, I move closer to identifying a contemporary ideology of landscape representations while defining my personal relationship to the landscapes I encounter.