Cassie Ferguson - Artist Statement
In essence, this body of work represents the process of coming to know my own spirituality. Ultimately, spirituality is a mindset. When I skate, my mind and body harmonize to bring focus to the very moment I am part of. This moment is my idea of spirituality. I consider the combination of the architecture of skate spots and my movement through them to function as a portal into a spiritual state of mind. By creating a collaged lithographic composition of the skate spots I frequent, I am able to understand their spiritual value. In this mural I showcase that, despite being at different locations, I can enter the same state of mind. The mural depicts various geographic areas that are represented as abstractions of the real locations. Across from the mural, there is a series of photogravures depiciting these same places but in a photorealistic way. This piece, in total, communicates the ways in which these physical places are transformed in my mind to become spiritual by way of my interaction with them.
Cassie Ferguson - Artist Bio
Cassie Ferguson is Portland-based printmaker and MFA in Print Media candidate at Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University. She received her B.S. in Biology with Honors and Minor in Art from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and is originally from Santa Cruz, California. Her practice involves a technically in-depth approach to print, especially within the genres of stone lithography, etching, film photography, and paper mounting. Her recent work considers notions of spirituality filtered through the lens of her experience skating bowls, ditches, and DIYs in Santa Cruz, Honolulu, and Portland.