Selva Aparicio

Wonder

forged iron, leather, Cordovan ink

Artist Statement

For the title, I really wanted to call it “wonder” because the piece also references the womb, which, in my experience, is so much a place of wonder and speaks to time and uncertainty.

The wishbone and the little balls are of forged iron, made to mimic  the  Taconite Iron Ore Pellets that gave birth to them 

​Artist bio 

Selva Aparicio is an interdisciplinary artist exploring ideas of memory, intimacy, and the temporality of life through installations that celebrate the cyclicity of the natural world. Working with nature’s ephemera, including cicada wings, oyster shells, and human cadavers, her practice is an extended death ritual which foregrounds a unique reverence for the discarded. Capturing the meanings imbued in these materials and the rituals informing their significance and sentimentality enables both the facilitation of environmental, social, and political activism through art and the creation of outlets for the public navigation of grief and mourning in a world so defined by loss.