Corina Willette

In play, time slips away. Visual allusions occur, your mind broadens allowing new realities. These analog virtual-realty artworks — created initially for interior spaces — ended up “going out to play”. Once outside… they interwove with the natural environment they were inspired by, discovering multiple ways of being.

Childlike wonder is essential to my approach to both materials and images. Sensual encounters, such as the pattern of clouds, the smell of dirt or the sound of birds calling take on meaning from our experiences and belief systems. In this way the patterns and connections we make, fact or fiction, become our reality.

Sketch of Thesis Show at the Dorsky, graphite on notepad, 2020
Education, Pacification, Cat myth, video of three objects: oil on appropriated portrait and frame, oil mixed with dirt and bought canvas lined with fake fur, acrylic and paint pens on canvas, 2020
detail of Counting Clouds, Finding Sheep, oil, graphite, charred wood on gessoed laser-cut birch panel, pine installed in my backyard, 2020
Counting Clouds, video of installation, 2020
detail of Counting Clouds,, oil, graphite, charred wood on gessoed laser-cut birch panel, pine 2020
detail of Counting Clouds, oil, graphite, charred wood on gessoed laser-cut birch panel, pine installed in my backyard, 2020
detail of Counting Clouds, oil, graphite, charred wood on gessoed laser-cut birch panel, pine, 2020
detail of Counting Clouds, oil, graphite, charred wood on gessoed laser-cut birch panel, pine, and acrylic on un-stretched canvas, 2020
detail of Counting Clouds, video of installation, 2020
detail Counting Clouds, oil, graphite, charred wood on gessoed laser-cut birch panel, pine, 2020