selene plum

Artist Statement

selene plum ~ artistic statement ~ 2025
Over the last few years I have been exploring 2 series of work: Wisconsin horizons and frozen lake Michigan. This was literally because of the locations of my 2 studios; one being in my 128 year old farm house in southern Wisconsin and the other was my little space across the street from Lake Michigan in Chicago.
I am now living in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I am living in the bone structure of this landscape and everything beneath it.

These alternative states of consciousness are alchemies that are my daily journals, empowering my isolation and informing my meditation. They are metaphysical experiences rendering ice and dirt with wax and fire.
I hope to capture the sublime isolation of being at one with the silent earth, transcendent moments and the religious experience with nature.

I want my viewer to experience something familiar and new, I want them to care for the earth as much as I do.