Emmeline Solomon

(I am not the only artist who will try to tell you that humanity is self-centered and therefore my self-centered art is about humanity, but to witness this minutia is to simultaneously intimately intertangle and to distance oneself from the reality of the present moment.)

(there is a simple sweetness of rebellion in pointing to something that does not, practically, matter, and saying “yes, that, I care about that. look at that.” In simply noticing and documenting we are telling a story that this, here, is worthy of your attention.)

(It might be garbage but it’s important garbage.)

I am trying to cross-breed Borges’ infinite archive of the universe in the form of a library, with the casual poetics of magical realist narrative, into an invented system of catalogued and constructed self. I am attempting to magicalize the minutiae of life. What does it look like when thousands of breaths before words somehow are more beautiful than a finished sentence? What does the feeling of reaching for and never touching home look like? I am seeking some physical form of a profound defenselessness in the face of truth, the fear of guts without the body.

Emmeline Solomon is an artist and educator who lives and works in Albion, Michigan. She holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, a BFA in Printmaking from the Maine College of art, and a cup of coffee in her hands at any given time.

emmelinesolomon.carbonmade.com

IG: @emmelinecady