Statement for recent work:
These paintings reckon with a world unraveling, de-syncopating, rearranging itself. They insist that human evolution has fostered in us a tender wisdom and wide capacity for attunement with the vast nonhuman world, to whom we are intricately bound. They accept that, though a blip in the scale of deep, or geologic, time, the trajectory of our industrialized culture has landed us in a time when the planetary laws and rhythms are changing, our role among the living landscape is in flux.
Along with the regularity of our seasons, we are learning to release our grasp on certainty. We are instead learning to dance with change. These paintings dream a world into breathing in which humans have replaced our striving for control with trust in our imaginations and our own sensing bodies. Here we envision a return to belonging through a reorientation to collaboration and relationship. We overcome our fear of the ordinary and relax our lives into a more appropriate scale. We come home to our animal selves and find we've entered a world where community teems all around us, where we have never been alone. We care, and are cared for here.
About the artist:
Jacqueline Maloney currently lives and works in unceded Tsalagi territory, present day North Carolina, in a studio in her off-grid home. She chops her wood and carries her water from a spring at the feet of the Black Mountains.
She has cultivated deep curiosity about the natural world since her childhood, throughout which she lived close to the sea in unceded Wabanaki territory, or present day Southern Maine. Barefoot afternoons in pine and birch forest and meanderings through tidepools and rocky beaches nurtured an early curiosity, and also a deep sense of relationship to the world beyond the sidewalk. This curiosity has since fostered a deep concern for her species’ relationship to the nonhuman, as she sniffs out the tracks we leave behind us through an unraveling landscape. It is this care that fuels the questions which unfold and augment her drawings and paintings.
Jacqueline is proud to be learning, listening, and working in collaboration with the international Creative Ambassadorship of the Land Art Agency. https://www.landartagency.com/
