Using the frame of a sculptural weave I can create a portal in a particular space, open a gateway, a channel for reciprocity between worlds; a window where there was once a barrier.  

 
  Communion, is an ongoing journey and collection of sculptural paintings as land-based art that are offered as temporary, environmental installations. 

 
The project is a ritualized process; its methods, narrative and aesthetics are intended to evoke visionary ways of creating and storytelling in hopes to become ecological connections and blooms of the collective unconsciousness. 

 
The painted and pigment-stained raw canvas mythologizes personal, natural and cultural experience. They are movements of honoring nature and experience, windows into womanhood, healing and reciprocity with our homes. The narrative details maps and guides to time, self and universal/earthly cycles. 

Like all stories, these temporary environmental installations harness the beauty and power of the ephemeral. Occupying each space momentarily to be embraced, transformed and released. They are free to both move or sit in stillness, all the while open and exposed to their telling.  The story and paintings gather a diverse collection of relationships of viewing and interaction. For example, with the dynamic, wind, light, sounds and space in outdoor environments and the controlled, still, quiet space of gallery environments.   

Another component of this project is the co-creation of a book of paintings, poetry, and music with my sister, Lara Stoudt, and father, Jan Frederick, titled: Imagining the Moon: A Lunar Tale of Words, Image, and Song. Engaging with the practice of Ekphrasis, I am creating a weave for each of Lara's moon poems, which follow the twelve moons of a lunar year. The paintings and poems are being set to music and the final project will include all three components of art making, visual, language, and music.  

"Art is important for it commemorates the seasons of the soul, or a special or tragic event in the soul’s journey. Art is not just for one self , not just a market of one’s own understanding.  It is also a map for those who follow after us."                    

   --Women Who Run With Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes  

“The artist has returned to create new forms of expression to resacralize, re-enchant, remythologize.”  

--The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light,  William Irwin Thompson