Wandering / In My Neck of the Woods - Kaye Savage
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Wandering / In My Neck of the Woods
Kaye Savage
Thirty-five years ago, a group of friends sat on a front porch with a bucket of plaster, a jar of vaseline, and a pair of soda straws each. After casting my face I pressed into it with hemp pulp; for the decades since, my 23-year-old face has made each move with me, but stayed fixed for years at a time in the corner of one room or another. Last autumn, I began taking it/me for walks in some of the natural spaces that I love most, capturing moods and a feeling of home. My wanderings have been explorations of aging, youth, liberation, and the power of nature to change our perspective and hold us close.
Uprooted
Whisper
Topknot
Nestled
Guardian
Dream
Garland
Conifer
Gala
Confusion
Images featured in this gallery are currently on display at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in Boone, NC, until May 5th, 2026.
Kaye Savage teaches Environmental Studies at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC. Her artwork spans photography and mixed media/handmade paper, with place-based themes centered on terrain patterns, natural materials, and sometimes representations of scientific data. Her past research in environmental geochemistry, and her current art practice, are explorations of chemical, physical, and biological interactions across multiple scales of time and space.
