Danila Rumold: Seeking The Spaces Between

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Danila Rumold: Seeking The Spaces Between

In her new body of work, Seeking The Spaces Between, Rumold creates large-scale paper collages, utilizing the colors and textures of the natural world. Obvious evidence of the work’s making reveals imperfection, decay, and impermanence while embracing beauty, spaciousness, and interconnection.

Foraging for plants and collecting other raw materials, Rumold makes her own botanical and mineral colors. Dying and staining Mulberry paper, she cuts tears and mends the fragments of paper back together. Exposing the work to natural elements, Danila imbues the processed papers with the marks of weather, time, and a sense of place. Together, these processes result in works with a strong material presence. Their surfaces are reminiscent of cracks in the dry, desert earth and the scars that appear on our skin through illness and aging.

Living with a terminal illness has heightened her awareness of the preciousness of time and the deep truth of our interconnection with Nature. By interpenetrating the essences of the Earth’s materiality with her own physical presence, Danila explores themes of living and dying, hope and fear, strength and fragility, and form and formlessness.