KARA WILLE
Flotsam (some jetsam)

My coat pockets and shelves are filled with odd bits and pieces picked up on walks. Pebbles, seed pods, dried leaves, shells, rusty bolts and washers, animal nests, tiny skulls, and the like. I’ve always had a love for beauty found in the things we leave behind, the detritus of both nature and humankind. There’s a kind of lonely, sad loveliness to these relics that’s irresistible to me. So, part of this show is directly about that: depictions of objects lost and found, a subject I’ll likely return to again and again for the rest of my life. But this show is also a loose collection of unrelated works created over the past two years, and a reflection of the jarring disruption of the pandemic on every aspect of life, including my creative process. Hence the title, a reference not only to the subject matter of some of the pieces installed here, but to the whole show as a collection of loosely related objects that, ultimately, I leave behind.

Artist Bio

Kara Wille grew up in a house filled with creativity and the materials to craft almost anything. Some of her earliest memories are of making potato prints with her mother. After a childhood and adolescence filled with drawing, painting and fearless expression, Kara went to art school, which quickly put an end to all that.

Many, many years later, and thanks largely to the opportunities offered by Centre3, Kara rediscovered the intense pleasure of printmaking, a medium that had always appealed to her Germanic appreciation for process and to her innate appreciation for the unknown – because with printmaking, until that moment when you peel the paper away from your plate, you never quite know what you’re going to get.