kacey slone

 Easyside presents Talespinner, a two person show by Laura Camila Medina and Kacey Slone, on view at Arts Fort Worth from August 2-24. Beginning from different suburban sensibilities – Medina, from Bogotá, Colombia and Orlando, Florida, and Slone from Southern Indiana and North Texas – the artists chart paths that traverse memory and fantasy, sadness and solitude. Often referencing pop cultural and domestic subjects, the artists oscillate between deconstruction and reconstruction of places they once knew intimately. The work reveals how place becomes essential to identity, and furthermore how the choice to document and explore those place memories can constitute a practice of resistance. Talespinner welcomes the audience into a shared experience, insisting on dream and reflection as a method to establish one’s place of belonging.

bluets 199.
Aluminum gate, rug, wood, collected photograph on sticker paper, magic sculpt, crushed velvet, dust, feathers

middle of nowhere
archived notes, saved curtain, welcome mat, wooden door, feathers

being there, being there
Collected window sill, crushed velvet, dust, archived photo on sticker paper, wood, saved outdoor light

distance as a poem
Collected frames, archived photograph on sticker paper

TailSpinner Work Statement
In this body of work I have focused on entrances and exits, outsides and insides. When intentionally blurring the lines of time and place, real or remembered, I have pondered when distance creates sentimentality.  Nodding at visitors by using their remnants and other objects left behind, I have created a new place of coexistence. Making sculptures of collected materials, such as dust, or ready made objects, like rugs, time is abstracted, making the work into portals into a new instance. This work is a continued exploration of making the impermanent nature of places, conversations and relationships permanent and tangible.