Piece description from the artist
I love holes so much I forget my partner is afraid of them. The darkness, the mystery, the feeling of falling they inspire, I feel held by them in my entirety. I found these holes one day in February walking in the wetlands of Concord Massachusetts with my friend Ben. To the side of the path, I thought I saw an old mushroom cap. I'm a forager but new to mushrooms, so I excitedly overturned this cap, expecting gills or a sponge and received holes, many many holes. I burst out laughing with joy, I'd never seen a lotus pod before.
Back in my studio, after a terrible incident where I showed my boyfriend the holes, I repeatedly painted them, just the holes, over and over, in small little patterns, enrapt by their power. I learned how Mark Rothko achieved his deep dark colors by thinning his paint and going over the same spots again and again, in that way, these holes I painted.
Rachel Aurora received her B.A. in Studio Art and Environmental Studies from Middlebury College (2018) and currently lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her debut solo exhibition, “A Second Look: Pinecones and Birch through Portraiture” opened in her hometown of Claremont, NH in April 2019 in the John D. Bennett Atrium Gallery of the Claremont Opera House. Her paintings have also been featured in the 26th Annual Student Show of the Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA and the Intercollegiate Regional of the The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy NY.
While at Middlebury, her work was published in The Birch at Columbia University and in Blackbird Student Magazine at Middlebury College. She conducted several group exhibitions at Middlebury on topics ranging from feminism and science to human ecology.
She has an avid interest in food systems reform, ecological justice and healing, and regenerative agriculture.
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