Rebecca Poarch

My work aims to realize the blurred line between the body and its lived experiences. Describing myself as a figurative painter, I contemplate poetic connections between forms, while deeply connecting to both internal and external experiences across universal space. I am creating a personal mythology in my works with much boundary dissolution between the physical and metaphysical, or the earthly and ethereal. Through painting an engagement between human identity to natural phenomena, I am contemplating a world of radical beauty and self love; a blooming utopia from a place of innermost vulnerability. After an intimate surgery that caused me to examine my relationship to femininity, my recent works explore the cutting and healing process my body has undergone, especially contemplating the elasticity and resilience of the female form. I have realized that healing spans not only the physical marks on the body but also the celestial marks on the spirit and the natural land surrounding it, stretching across infinite generations. Through my painting process, I am able to accept and adapt to the growth I have experienced, connect to my deeper sense of sensuality and femininity, and heal varied wounds during my quest for harmony. I hope to address questions of growth and self-acceptance, to then create ephemeral and hyper-feminine works, that reflect found oneness and beauty during my isolated pursuit of diaristic mysticism, thus contributing to the collective uprise in contemporary alchemy.