- Installation view of Internal Circumstances at CIBC Square, with Maiden, and Mother.
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Left to right: Maiden (2024) Stained glass, solder, copper interior. 26.5 x 21 x 18.5 inches. Mother (2024) Stained glass, solder, copper interior. 30 x 22 x 18.5 inches.
Internal Circumstances
Solo exhibition, CIBC Square
Toronto, Canada
Sept 10, 2024 - Jan 31 2025
Internal Circumstances is an exhibition of new works in stained glass and copper, that brings together the enduring knowledges and agential forces held within the more-than-human world and at our core. A small selection of work from this exhibition is pictured here including sculptures Maiden and Mother, and one of six wall-based works in an ongoing series titled Seers.
The act of walking can be practised as a form of healing. Walking in the forest, through dark thickets where sounds are held close to the earth and vegetation which composes its architecture; spaces where soils are soft and rich with layers of growth and life-giving rot, where we too may sluff off skin and all thought, feeling; places that teem beyond our ability to see to know, so dense and full that a person might feel inconsequential yet full of potential in equal measure. Hudspith finds such spaces ideal for re/attuning to the self–and world–via an internal churning as paced by footfall. Walking opens her up to encounter, for w/a/ondering on in.
The work draws upon a growing archive of photographs documenting the trails left by insects in arboreal cambium, traces that only become visible to passersby through the transformations of decay. Their trails have the appearance of arcane language that though unknowable, articulates a wisdom all its own. Like walking rituals that offer encounters with the more-than-human world, carving pathways in me for healing psyche and soma, Hudspith is drawn also to articulations of human construct of our innermost being such as the archetypal figure of the ‘wild woman’.
One of six wall-based stained glass and copper sculptures from Hudspith’s Seer series presented at CIBC Square in Internal Circumstances.
Seer three (2024) Stained glass, solder, copper. 17 x 20.5 x 1.5 inches