Zoe Rogers

My practice is research-based, using the waters surrounding New York City as a medium, exploring environment, pollution, and separation through ubiquity. I make sculptural and print works, in which I create a rich landscape of colors through handmade pigments, forming a narrative through the use of materiality as a language. I use craft skills from pre-industrial metalwork, engaging folk art traditions in digital mediums using matter ranging from extracted plant dyes to scrap metals. Through researching proximity as intimacy, my work explores transference between material and the body, and the physical and psychological borders we place to create distance between the environment and ourselves. I typically approach found objects as a system of knowledge, interrogating systems which have created separation between common resources and ourselves. By deconstructing an already broken material, I open discussion on the possibility of reimagining the future of our personal and collective relationships to materials.