A lively garden of peculiar sleeping flora grows wild within each of us. Charlotte Briskin awakens these gardens by creating unique intimate experiences with her artwork. Briskin’s artwork is inspired by the coexistence of plants and their interconnected relationships in the natural world.
Charlotte Briskin is a sculptor and papermaker from Pennsylvania living and working in Chicago, Illinois. Briskin uses a variety of interactive sculptural materials such as handmade paper, textiles, metal, found objects, and what other people call trash. Through material exploration she expresses the similarities between our human bodies and the natural world. Her work visualizes the synchronicities of life from microscopic levels to astronomical sizes.
Her artwork creates a lively display of the unique gardens that we have the potential to cultivate within ourselves. Before we can cultivate and care for a healthy garden and world outside, we must first tend to our internal gardens and worlds. Through material exploration, her art questions our social misconceptions about individual bodily autonomy and inspires our internal sleeping gardens to awaken.
