Habitual Growth

A collaborative installation by Alexis Ortiz, Julia Gootzeit and Katie Schofield

ON VIEW July 22 - August 20 2011
OPENING RECEPTION July 22 7-11pm

Habitual Growth is a collaboration between Alexis Ortiz, Julia Gootzeit and Katie Schofield. Their work revolves around the process of creation in which ritualistic motions are repeated, producing an accumulation of simple forms. As the daily act of making becomes habit, the forms grow and intertwine. The different textures and materials are juxtaposed to create an imagined habitat of symbiotic relationships. Natural and industrial elements interact - eating, regurgitating, sheltering, mimicking, covering, and encrusting one another.