Julia Peterson

Artist Statement

In my work I use ceramic, photography, metals, and interdisciplinary media to express the human impacts on nature, ourselves, and others. I have a deep relationship with nature, and with that comes an understanding of what is happening in the natural space around me. Over the past few decades, we have seen dramatic disturbances in nature, most of which are being caused by humans. Whether it be oil spills, wildfires, poaching, or other means of disturbance, we have an undeniable impact on the plant and animal life around us. In turn, this is also having major impacts on us as humans, both in our relationships with each other and with ourselves. I work to further explore these human impacts, dissolving the ideology that these issues are political issues, but rather issues of our planet’s future and our future as human beings.