Taking a Walk
Taking a Walk
- Creator: Willow Wells
- Date: 2024
- Location: 6th St & W Jefferson St, SW Corner
- Types: murals (any medium), reproductions (derivative objects), utility box wraps
- Materials: ink, vinyl, paper (fiber product)
- Collection: Traffic Box Wraps
The artwork represents the human body and nature, with the objective of in-tangling them into a symbiotic form. Willow Wells uses traditional fine-art techniques as well as visual and conceptual inspiration from the genre “body horror” and its use of the metamorphosis narrative. Wells captivated by the feminine representation of the grotesque—a theme that pervades her artistic exploration—and uses intricacy to create artworks that present themselves as “beautiful” to entice viewers to looks closer into the inherent grotesque subjects of her work. Through painting, drawing, and printmaking Wells renders figures and plants into cohesive forms, intended to give the work a sense of “in-between” male and female, and plant and human. Wells addresses the act of metamorphosis as a tool to express things beyond verbal explanation. The body itself tells the story exposing exterior and interior conflicts. Taking this narrative format and implementing it into other elements of visual culture and art history, she hopes to further the conversation around the fluidity of gender and the constriction of binaries.
