Christa Howard

Visual Art – Orange County

I live to create just about anything - from necklaces made out of used teabags and thrift shop rejects, to giant hand-died paper flowers with cut up corks and pulled wool yarn serving as stamen and stem. More specifically, the illustrations I create stem from my background as a professional dancer, fine artist and photographer. Gesture, spatial relationships and movement are the undercurrents of what I create. Summer of 2012 I started my \"Deconstruction Series\", a series of ink drawings of modeled after organic/inorganic items which I took apart and and then reconnected in a way that I imagined they themselves would need to reattach, a sort of desperation. Each line lead to the next in a mostly improvisational manor. Thoughts that drove each line were entropy, reconnection, the intense comfort of imperfection, chaos, magnetism, and the idea that uncertainty breeds strength.... The recreation of the drawings using 26 gage wire on plywood was a continuation of this exploration.