Innerworld Ecologies

New work by Singha Hon
July 19th through August 15th
Opening Reception Friday, July 19th 6-8pm

Statement: 

The wellspring for my work comes from nature, dreams, and mythology. Through painting and drawing, I create pieces inspired by plants, animals, and emotions. Many of my pieces feature chimeric figures– people transforming into plants or animals or simply becoming subsumed into nature. 

Innerworld Ecologies is an exploration of the connections/disconnections that exist between our bodies and our emotions, an examination of the relationships we have to our surroundings, each other, and our own inner worlds. They are inspired by folk tales and my own curiosity about the natural world through the lens of queer ecology and the practice of childhood joyfulness.

I look to folk tales and the natural world as a pathway to explore complex emotions–tenderness,  safety, despair, desire, love, anger and hope. Through my paintings, I hope to visualize a way to return to some deeper, wilder self, one that is more easily at home in the winding river of our mythologies and planet.

Bio:

Singha is a visual and teaching artist from New York City. Through painting, drawing, and sculpture, her work is about creating visual stories inspired by plants, animals, and emotions, set in dreamlike places somewhere between reality and an imagined one bursting with chimeras and megafauna.

As an artist and illustrator, she is dedicated to using visual mediums to tell stories that highlight the beautiful and nuanced mythologies of our lives, foster hope, and nurture dreaming. She has created artwork for organizations such as the ACLU, The Museum of Modern Art, The People Paper’s Co-Op, and Womanly Magazine. She joined The W.O.W. Project–an arts and activism nonprofit in NYC’s Chinatown as their 4th Artist in Residence in 2019 and has most recently finished up a two year teaching artist residency at W.O.W. through the Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employment Program. As a teaching artist, she has taught workshops across mediums, including ceramics, sculpture, cyanotype, drawing, and painting.

She has recently worked with O+ Positive in Kingston to create two murals, one which lives on the side of Lite Brite Neon, and one indoors at The Unicorn.

https://www.singhahon.com
https://www.instagram.com/singha.hon/#