Welly Fletcher
My artworks address the body by creating spaces and objects that can be used for reflection, or as locations for positive transformational experiences. I am heavily invested in the contemporary role of the physical, and utilize raw materials to communicate in body-based terms like weight, texture, temperature, scent, and sound reflection.
In reckoning with today’s political, environmental, and social realities, I have been compelled to make objects that enact support. Collaboration is often an element of my overall practice, which manifests as projects made with other artists and as objects that may require the viewerโs participation to complete. I have been exploring the diagonal as a literal manifestation of queer politics: leaning material-bodies form a sculptural field of resistance to the straight, right angles of the normative world. Crafted using raw materials such as industrial felt, wood, clay, and steel, each sculpture offers a direct, physical encounter.
I hope my artworks can provide alternate paths and possibilities. I believe the expanded field of sculpture offers increasingly-rare opportunity for an embodied, intersectional, poetic experience of otherness.