Sarah Kudirka
How We Make It Through
Seemingly still and serene shell-like forms crowd together, merging at their edges, they buoy up and wear each other down, co-existence and resistance is a constant struggle for all living creatures on land and sea. Pretty shells collected on the shore are brought home to kitchen tables, striped bowls to collect rain nestle and merge their atoms with shallow aquatic beings.
Hopeful, calming images to help us picture what survival looks like. All life on this earth began in the oceans, and surely the sky, sea and rain belong to all of us and none. If we are to reshape and prolong human life on this watery blue planet we need – it has been suggested – to be shown images that help us see how we make it through. The works in this series are intended to point in a hopeful direction, not just scare us with images of climate catastrophe.
Many of these paintings borrow titles from poems by Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian writer in exile.
