My work deals with barriers. The perceived barriers between expression and restriction, analysis and impulse, art and science, meticulous rendering and broad sweeping gesture, fight to find common ground – sometimes melding seamlessly into each other and at other times struggling to overcome strict delineations. Ultimately, it responds to the way we seek to understand and explain biological phenomena using visual media. Even the most detailed illustration is only a shadow – an attempt to organize that which can never fully be captured in a two-dimensional format.
My current work focuses on the shapes formed by skin cells: the way they move, assemble, disperse, and layer to form a natural barrier of the body. This particular barrier is designed to protect, insulate, and convey messages to deeper and darker realms of the body that it works to hide.
Meredith Hoffman
