Kit Rutter
Listening, can you find the pulse of that which you do not know, but can feel? I watch spiders spinning their webs and I wonder about the knowledge that my own body holds. The more-than-words, cannot-be-taught knowledge. It is thick and textured and raw; sometimes invisible, always tender. Its sensuous language lies beneath our feet, in swaying grasses, and in our guts. If you are in a hurry, you will never find it. I shape goldenrods and walnuts and oak galls into parts of me, and they shape me too. We discover that curiosity and intimacy are medicines we cannot afford to lose. I pull my fingers out of the mud, orange & glistening.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Katherine Rutter is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores ecology, narrative, impermanence, and multiple matters of care & connection. Her art practice involves drawing, papermaking, bookmaking, printmaking, writing, and foraging. She currently lives in the thick Piedmont woods with her dog Dorothy, and teaches at the University of Georgia in Athens.