Donna Eder

Chicago, United States

Artist's Statement:
"Banyan Tree": Earth exposes entanglement brilliantly through the Banyan Tree. The Banyan defies the normalcy of branches growing up. Instead, in empathy of her own roots, she allows her tree limbs to become roots quite obviously. Feeling the need to strengthen her own roots, she exposes the shortcomings of normalcy. This choice in exposure results in a blended entanglement. The Banyan Tree demonstrates the coupling of unconscious choices we make to stand in the world but not by the world.

"Winter Voices": Life's complexities appear as vapor in nightmarish dreams of a cluttered mental landscape. In allowing this processing, we expose our internal conflicts and attempts at their resolution. Life's drama is the balancing out of which tensions we choose to define us. This image on one's anguish in her mental lanscape begs exposure.