Rosily Roberts
About
I am interested in the relationship between landscape, art, people and memory,
how the experience of the landscape contributes to the formation of identity, personal and societal,
how places in the natural world and buildings become the site of memories,
how those memories are remembered, recorded, saved, passed down, forgotten, reremembered,
how longing for a place and belonging in a place and homesickness and home are made manifest –
I draw on the work of artists and writers from throughout history, as well as primary archival sources, letters, diaries, photographs, from my own family and other figures. I explore how the experience of nature translates – or fails to translate – in writing, painting or any other medium, and how it morphs as it slips through these different lenses.
My current project explores my family history in Down East Maine and the landscape of the region through the artists and writers who have drawn inspiration from it, as well as my own experiences in that landscape. Somewhere, as the gnarled roots of the paintings I have been looking at, the writing I have been reading and the walking I have been doing tangle together to trip me up, I am hoping to make sense of my own identity.
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