The Peaks only I can See: Rachel Garrard
by Himali Singh Soin
Art Slant
December 2, 2015
There is a sense in Rachel Garrard’s work that it is about everything, occurring at the same time, everywhere. It is internal and external, dark and light, it is feminine and masculine, organic and synthetic, large and small, bright and anodyne, personal and universal, invisible and omnipresent. But more than this dance of dualities, is the uninterrupted in-between: the process, the medium, multiplicity. Garrad quotes Buddhist Thinley Norbu: “Any substance that comes into existence is already perishing, all substance is continually beginning and ending within each instance.” Her art is anatomical and topographical at once. Its analysis is equally simple and complex.