Sediment // Sentiments

 About the series:

“Sediment // Sentiments” is a study of the way that trauma settles in our bodies not unlike sediment in a river turning to stone. It’s perhaps most potently about the artist’s dance with anger. She describes this unwanted emotion (and all that comes with it) as having calcified into pain in the joints and showing up as a burning that appears only when attempting to sit still. Sedimentary rocks often have crystals in them that existed before the rock was formed. This serves as an apt metaphor for inherited trauma, something Stott has been unpacking while navigating her own chronic illness. These bits of personal history seem to be compressed overtime, just like river rock, and the textures and patterns in this series of paintings echo those happenings. Stott laments, “If the rocks that have settled into the divots of my soul took slow time to form, I must take slow and luscious time washing them away.”

This series was developed during a residency in Cedar City, Utah, and was on view at 16 N 100 W in March 2021.