Maeve Merkle-Scotland
A few words about me
Ever since I could remember, making made me feel like me again. Growing up in a big family meant I was always surounded by people and personalities. In times of chaos or conflict, I somehow always found my escape up to a space where I could tinker and create.
Despite this reality however, I never really found confidence in my art practice until I started to see it more as a form of therapy. Once I realized my drawings could tell me how I felt better than I could, I saw a self trust develop in my art making practice. My sculptrues have taught me a sort of bonding, playful relationship with the self hater that lives right beside me always. A tool to connect with my body and divine force, there is nothing that feels more true to my existence than art.
Like identity, art is fluid. Framing gender, expression, time, and life in its span as a fluid state feels liberating. A person is never one way, and my art is always changing. I often think how I will continue to change days, months or years from now, and there is no doubt my art will be right by my side on that journey.
Thanks for coming to check it out!