ARTIST STATEMENT
Hartwig's practice catechizes constructs of power and control that enforce imbalance,
personally and socio-culturally. Her work investigates and evaluates dysregulated
anthropocentric ecologies and their destructive dissonant effects on self, others, and
the biosphere. She uses the art-making and exhibition process as an active and urgent
attempt to create a movable fulcrum that cooperatively draws attention, questioning,
and awareness.
Her work merges formal training of finely crafted ceramic objects and illustration with
experimental approaches to process and new material. Specific embodied and storied
places, spaces, and material contexts are integral. Research is a throughline to better
understand content and context - past, present, and future. Not all the work is site or
material-specific, yet all works are permeated with connection, deep meaning, and
story.
Hartwig's art is created by the process and act of doing and making. Most often, this
process is more vital than the final work. The making of the work is somatic,
of-the-body. She uses weight, force, and physicality to manipulate and alter the
material, a physical ritual in dialogue with cognitive psychosomatic conceptual
processing. The completed work further opened to the public, becomes a new
communal conversation and experience pilot.
personally and socio-culturally. Her work investigates and evaluates dysregulated
anthropocentric ecologies and their destructive dissonant effects on self, others, and
the biosphere. She uses the art-making and exhibition process as an active and urgent
attempt to create a movable fulcrum that cooperatively draws attention, questioning,
and awareness.
Her work merges formal training of finely crafted ceramic objects and illustration with
experimental approaches to process and new material. Specific embodied and storied
places, spaces, and material contexts are integral. Research is a throughline to better
understand content and context - past, present, and future. Not all the work is site or
material-specific, yet all works are permeated with connection, deep meaning, and
story.
Hartwig's art is created by the process and act of doing and making. Most often, this
process is more vital than the final work. The making of the work is somatic,
of-the-body. She uses weight, force, and physicality to manipulate and alter the
material, a physical ritual in dialogue with cognitive psychosomatic conceptual
processing. The completed work further opened to the public, becomes a new
communal conversation and experience pilot.