Julia Blume

The Shade Tree, 2023

“Inosculation” — a performance/sculpture from a few years ago. Inosculation is a process where trees fuse, sharing trunks, branches, or roots. As humans who have been torn from the land due to colonialism, capitalism, and hyperindividualism, can we find was to inosculate ourselves back to the land?

Arctic fox investigating a silk sculpture I used for performances in Hornstrandir

Of course! 💕

“Stealth and its Companions”, 2021
Wire, plaster, acrylic paint, pumice, faux flowers, dyed polyester fringe

Tribeca today.
Nick Cave at Jack Shainman
Chris Martin at Timothy Taylor
Sarah Rosalena at Sargent’s Daughters
Tess Bilhartz at Deanna Evans Projects

Anyway… an interactive piece from a few years back. Let us believe, still, in the possibility of flourishing.

But do so because art is a vocation, because it is a human act, because it is an empathy machine. Not because you feel beholden to the capitalist professionalization of the art world. You are beholden only to your art and your community and to the building of a better world.

But if you’re an artist, just remember, please — your humanity comes before your career, always. If you need time to rest, to organize, to gather facts, to fight, take that time. If creating is what helps you do these things, keep creating!

This is not AT ALL to say that art itself is a distraction. The only things keeping me half functional right now are novels, poetry, paintings, and sculptures. I’m so grateful for everyone who is able to keep creating, and I hope the images of my older work are helpful for some, as well.

Honestly… I am utterly incapable of making anything right now. It’s wild that we are currently living in a dictatorship (a provisional and weak one that hopefully can still be challenged by the courts, BUT STILL?!?!), and yet I’m being encouraged to think about my “career”.

Thank you Loren!

“like the marshes think”, 2023
Wire, epoxy, acrylic paint, pumice, faux flowers

“Ventricle/The Lanternfly”, 2023
Wire, epoxy, acrylic paint, pumice, faux flowers, spray paint, dyed polyester fringe

Met this moss at a residency in Iceland and have been collaborating with its spirit ever since.

Thank you!

“it pulls them down”, 2022
Wire, epoxy, acrylic paint, pumice, faux flowers, dyed polyester fringe

Beautiful things happening in Ridgewood. Sculptures by Chris Baker reaching out to a painting by Taraneh Mosadegh and a fiber piece by Amy Greco. Tempest Gallery.

Thank you!

Sculptures are a container for seeing the world. Sometimes literally. These are some views from "sky-viewing tubes": interactive works where the viewer is encouraged to lie down, stick their head into the sculpture, and contemplate patches of sky and trees.

A set of green and orange wall sculptures with flowers and fringe

A set of green and reddish wall sculptures, with three dark-toned paintings in the middle

Studio walls, 2022/2024