Professor Harvey’s artworks brought a fresh look to installations in my eyes. This is because she creates installations directly on the wall, using the same materials the wall is made of, and thereby delicately transforming the walls from an architectural space to something much unexpected and sometimes very bizarre but very interesting. Harvey approaches her work like poetry by using layered meanings and hidden symbolism. I got to experience this whilst taking her drawing class this semester because she always encourages us to add layering within our drawings whether it’s through shading or of the drawn objects; the layering tends to suggest supplementary meanings. Her connection with poetry is because of the sounds and vowels and consonants that the poets use whilst as an artist, she uses paints and texture and materials that define her work.
Professor Harvey described her present works as existing somewhere between painting, sculpture, and drawing. Some of her concepts behind her works include looking at the day to day lives of human interaction, observing the “blueprints” to something and how it was designed, doing something that you’re not suppose to do to experience a new/different side,
A few of her interests consist of the natural world and our roles in it, languages because she explained everything has its own language not just cultures, therefore to fully understand or experience something, we need to try to recognize what it is.
Two works of hers that I found intriguing is Hole Drawing (Smith Chart), Holes in wall, and paint and Beneath, Behind. The first is because the holes reveal the history of the wall and the things that have happened to that wall such the various paints that have been painted over the wall, and how the layers depict times gone by. At the same time the holes present absence, and loss of the wall. Harvey’s second artwork raises my curiosity about what could possibly be lurking behind the walls or underneath the floor. The different forms that she has expanding and trying to break out from the walls are very mysterious.
Through her artworks, Harvey more or less wants to explore what is known, and what is not known, and I find that very exciting.
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