W.M. Hunt

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Cig Harvey wants to take you by the hand and lead you into her special realm where the air is rarified and redolent of flowers. We walk as if in a dream state where our senses are on high alert.  In her practice, the artist likes to make ”mind maps,” a technique of free associating that offers a creative person a graphic picture of their unconscious and conscious thinking simultaneously; they look like these flower petals but with words.  

The bower of pinks, magentas, lavenders here are like a horse blanket for the winner of the sensory aesthete derby, a bee’s nirvana with one large erect pistil on the left of the image extending a welcome.  

Harvey’s work more often features people, whose identities are not important to understanding the work although they are more recently the artist’s daughter a doppelgänger for the artist’s id and everyone else’s for that matter.  Imagine that she is drowning herself in flower petals seeking entry to a heightened consciousness.  Ohm.  Synesthesia, when you experience one of your senses through another.

Here is the artist’s advice:

“Hydrangeas change their color depending on the pH level of the soil. 

If you’ve had a shit day, go outside and bury your face in a MASSIVE hydrangea.  Find one that is riotous and unruly, straight out of where the Wild Things Are. 

If you just need a cuddle, select a purple variety with especially pouffy puffs.  

If you need to find cutting words for an argument, search for a deep blue one and inhale it right to your toes.”*1

Indeed.  

*1 Cig Harvey, “The Changing Color of Hydrangeas”. from “Blue Violet”, Monacelli Press, 2021

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