Artist Statement
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I work with dead and discarded morphology. I study natural living networks and imagine humans' futures in balance with our planet's ecology. Through observation, collaboration, and drawing my work highlights how natural patterns and systems echo each other in form and function. Utilizing foraged bones, feathers, skin, hair, and other dead stuff to construct environments and drawings of those environments, my work looks to act as connective tissue, inviting multiple possible configurations, contexts, and revisions to the future. My process questions collective traumas, scars, and detritus to investigate ways to repair through acts of alchemy and new growth. My research investigates how holistic communities of people, trees, birds, fungi, bacteria, and other life forms consume and are re-formed, and what they might teach us about living in balance with our wildness.
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Bio
 
Belle Struck is an artist/educator. She comes from a long line of writers, performers and artists. Belle has exhibited works in Boston, Antwerp, Paris, and around the North Shore. One of her etchings is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as part of a tribute to Michael Mazur. The Print collection is called: Cognates. She has her BFA from Art Institute of Boston, an MFA from Lesley Art & Design in Cambridge, Mass. She is available for workshops, exhibitions, commissions, editions and collaborations.