Margaux Mellott - Artist Statement
This project started as a joke to myself but quickly turned into my artistic identity. I am a very emotional creative and tend to cry often as a healthy release when things get a bit too heavy. I go to places to cry and some places to stop crying. When I took a workshop in paper making, I knew I needed to make Fun Times Crying Paper for real. So, I have gone about putting leaves and petals and moss bits in the pulp soup. I’ve embedded pieces of the landscapes I find comfort in within my own peachy banana fiber tissue. I can cry into my comfort places and feel connection. Connection to places, connection to people and connections to earth. This paper explores the journey of the author in learning how to use humor, intuition, grief and more to share information and create meaningful bridges between people and the planet.
Margaux Mellott - Artist Bio
Margaux Mellott is a mother, gardener, doula, soil enthusiast, woodfired potter, sticker designer and a bad drawer. She spends her days and nights thinking about how theoretical foundations in DADA facilitates connections between herself and her environment. She creates: shitty photoshop memes; photographic portraits/candids/landscapes; sacred ceramic vessels; secret prose; collage; paper; guerilla theater & safe spaces- among other things. Find her staring at clouds or stars or what ever is up -she likes birds and sunsets the most. Her schooling includes an Associates in Arts in Psychology from San Diego Mesa College, A Bachelor’s Degree in Indigenous led Archaeology from the University of Hawai’i at Hilo and now a Masters of Fine Arts in Print Media from PNCA/Willamette University. Her Dream is to get a PhD in restorative Soil Science and help close the poop-loop. She currently lives just outside of Bellingham Washington with her 2 children and cat, Sara.