Ghost Affliction [worry stone ritual] (2024) by Ariana Martinez
Ariana Martinez works across print, sculpture, and time-based media to explore processes of sensory perception and spatial navigation. As an artist living with neurological and autoimmune illnesses, Martinez is interested in how experiences of sickness and disability present new ways of moving through and communicating with the natural world.
Through work that is meant to be touched, changed, and shared, Martinez confronts feelings of placelessness, disorientation, and the creative place-making that arises from necessity.
On-site at the James Castle House, Martinez hopes to draw inspiration as much from the material qualities of James Castle’s work as from his ingenious spatial reasoning. Martinez plans to map and respond to the world with visual and tactile language and produce work that invites curiosity about all of our different navigational strategies.
Join us at the following events to learn more about Ariana and their creative practice:
Inside the Studio
Workshop
Final Presentation
