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Chloe Parsons
Chloe is a naturalist and emerging, self-guided watercolor and floral collage artist based in San Antonio, TX with a deep interest in the sensuality of nature and intimate ecological relationships. Her literary background, scientific interests, and natural curiosity are reflected in the mythic and narrative style of her work, which aims to foster a sense of interconnection and entanglement required for radical, collective, environmental justice. Her work spans exhibiting, collaborating, and teaching.
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Artist Style: Visual Art: Collage, Conceptual, Contemporary, Dream Imagery/Ethereal, Environmental, Figurative
Artist Medium: Earth; Gold Leaf; Watercolor
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
Watercolor is co-creative. No matter an artist’s years of mastery, the artist still works in concert with and at the behest of the water, making perfection and replication an inherent impossibility. The relationship is power-with instead of power-over. As Western society grapples with increased climate catastrophe in dissociative and hyper-individualistic ways, the field of ecology offers scientific and philosophical power-with solutions and an essential perspective shift towards interdependence and imperfect progress. Art bridges the gap between science and embodied awareness.
I aim to show how humanity is a co-creative and essential member of the democracy of species, with the hope that a plural identity shared with our ecologies will embolden us to greater action in preserving ecosystems, indigenous knowledge, systems of mutuality, and sheer pleasure in the sensuality of existing. I meld multi-narrative elements from mythology, ethnobotany, mycology, theology, and psychedelia into vibrant, detailed scenes that celebrate the vitality of decay.