Language is layers; at its' intersections lie expression.
I am a fiber artist drawing on a linguistics background to create graphic metaphors that evoke the mythology that is nature's unfolding, a process that can often be grasped by the net of language, yet evades description in totality. My creative endeavors are further mollified by my training as a classical laboratory alchemist.
Each of my art pieces is meant as a bookmark where the viewer is reminded of the original framework of a human mind, one that is directly immersed in nature as our biological systems were made to evolve up until this technological precipice in humanity's development. Just as the fabricated world (material or cyber) acts as a red herring to our personal development of identity, my creations are meant to equally draw the attention back to the center of being, undisturbed by imposition.
Forthcoming collection, "Emanations," slated for exhibition in 2025.
Each of my art pieces is meant as a bookmark where the viewer is reminded of the original framework of a human mind, one that is directly immersed in nature as our biological systems were made to evolve up until this technological precipice in humanity's development. Just as the fabricated world (material or cyber) acts as a red herring to our personal development of identity, my creations are meant to equally draw the attention back to the center of being, undisturbed by imposition.
Forthcoming collection, "Emanations," slated for exhibition in 2025.
Click here to view, "Song of the Sand," in Subprimal Poetry Art/Music, 2018.
Click here to view, "Snail Shell on the Bay," and, "Come around again." in aaduna, 2015.
Click here to view, "Snail Shell on the Bay," and, "Come around again." in aaduna, 2015.
About Hallie Hayes
Lake Winnebago at High Cliff State Park, Wisconsin.
Photo courtesy of Skye Schmelzer, 2021. |
I grew up in an old river town in Iowa and completed my Bachelor of Arts degree at Loras College in 2014. As an undergraduate, I served as creative nonfiction student editor for Catfish Creek, Loras college's undergraduate literary magazine. During that time, I was also awarded various creative accolades and undergraduate publications. I ended my time at Loras maxima cum laude with a thesis in poetry and a minor in Spanish.
My poems have since found online publicaton in Subprimal Poetry Music/Art (2018), aaduna (2015), and Moonsick Magazine (2015). More recently, my written work has evolved into visual artwork which blends the sanctity of storytelling with textile craftsmanship, a medium that was passed on to me by both of my grandmothers, one of a German ancestral lineage and the other hailing from Sweden. This textile work has recently been exhibited at Planted (December 2022, February 2022), and Morbid Muse Gala (October 2022, 2021) in Dubuque, Iowa as part of collaborative showcases. In the next few years, you can expect to find me indulging in the minds of my own two blossoming children, as we explore the same backyard that has always been my home, the ecological Driftless Area of the Midwest. |