Joetta Maue
Where did all the glitter come from?
ink and watercolor on paper
2022
"Where did all the glitter come from" a sweeping, a dusting, a daily act of labor and care turned into a map of time and conversation between the profound nature of the universe, cosmos and beyond.
As an act of sustained meditation on the sublime within the everyday I make work inspired by the banal and its coexistence with the profound. As I search to find answers to the unanswerable questions what I do find is a world full of light and dark, sound & silence, intimacy & loneliness, and joy and sorrow collaborating in union with each other. Everything sits inside of nothing, this is what I seek, question, and investigate.
My major bodies of work have explored: the daily intimacy & the space that can exist between lovers, the locale of the bed, the repetition & objects of parenthood, the psychological landscape of the domestic space and the form of prayer found in the dust of our homes. My image-based work explores the physical space and experience of these relationships while my text-based works explore the complicated emotions that reside within intimacy, identity & the questions of human existence. The graphite drawings allow me to zoom in on the importance of the small, possibly insignificant objects and detritus, of domesticity and focus on their texture, tones and detail, abstracting their meaning and role while simultaneously elevating them. The photographs and textile work act as documents and proof of lives lived and relationships felt.
Maue has exhibited and taught internationally.
