Nicole Alexandra Salcedo

A public art installation at The Bass Museum's Windows Project

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Nicole Salcedo’s methodical, yet intuitive mark-making visualizes amorphous concepts like cosmic energy, one’s inherent connectedness to Nature and the oscillation of Universal forces. Salcedo’s art takes form in rhythmic and organic lines on paper or cloth that conjure real and imagined landscapes, and often include figures that represent an androgenized spirit of Nature. Charting the wavelengths of invisible energy pulsing through the world, these works can resemble microcosms and ecosystems of life.

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Salcedo makes visible unseen networks—akin to root systems—that connect human beings to all life forms. Global events like pandemics often illuminate the existence and necessity of these invisible relationships, revealing a sense of natural entanglement between human beings, landscapes, bodies of water and even the stars. Wandering Waves is an invitation to contemplate humanity’s relationship to this spirit of entanglement. The ink-marked tapestry is a recording of this sense of connectivity, a wandering into a subtle trance, using brushes, twigs, pinecones and other plant-derived objects as materials for mark making.