Christine Spinder
Medium: Textiles, Mixed Media
Studio 322B, 1000 Parker St, Vancouver
Instagram: @christinezoe
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christine.spinder
Website: www.christinespinder.com
Email: christinezoe@gmail.com
Christine Spinder's textile art explores ritual, the elements, botany, anatomy, birth and death, joy, shadow, archetype, collective, frequency, physics, and our relationship with land, ancient symbols, and ancestry. Each element - from the prismatic botanical dyes to the linen and merino wool - is handmade and organic, spotlighting the vibrancy and clarity of natural materiality.
With a lifetime researching story, somatics, dance, meditation, ritual, ecology, neurodiversity and our senses, Christine's art invites viewers to waken to their mythic, collective intelligences. Guided by her autistic synesthesia, Christine's art explores extrasensory worlds that make meaning of change and connection.
From spirals and geometry, botany and mountain ranges, water ways and moon phases, cellular evolution and shadow play, the symbols carry global meanings. Christine began exploring them after a lifetime of dreaming them, refound in her Slavic culture of origin.
"I feel something waking inside me," viewers say. "And it feels really good."
