Heather Harvey

For this project I wanted to create an exuberant, joyful, playful experience that invokes trust, connection, pleasure, and hopefulness. It has been a grueling few years for most of us. Global political unrest along with an ongoing pandemic. Basic ethics and social fairness have been on the line daily against a backdrop of environmental collapse and economic disparity. This work is a reminder of what remains good about being alive.

This is part of the larger exhibition, ‘Whimsy,’ with artist Shana Kohnstamm, curated by Rula Jones at Gallery 115 in Frederick, Maryland, 2021-22

Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, 2016

This main installation in Periodicities in Chaotic Forcing is structured around a fragmentary electrical wiring diagram and includes found materials collected during walks over three years. Each object has its own story, now lost.

The exhibition works with the tension between aggression and order; methodical systems and riotous disharmony; explosive violence versus pregnant calm.