Marilyn Ranker Joins Miller Street Studios
Blue Poles, wood, rope, stain,
2021
Marilyn Ranker joins Miller Street Studios just in time for Somerville Open Studios 2022. Her work is featured in the first floor hallway for the weekend.
I am remaking my pieces to reflect a narrative.
I think about how shadows falling across a form break up the sensation that it is solid, massive and whole.
I think about emotions such as anxiety, worry, and fear and how they can be countered by gratitude, decisions and definition.
I think about how the skeleton encases the heart and is wrapped in flesh.
I think about the sea and all that nautical imagery.
I think about birth-death-regeneration because what else is there.
Finally, it is a struggle to act effortlessly when making something.