Annie May Johnston
Region: MFA Annual
Our urban environment and our bodies are stories in perpetual
progress. These narrative marks are often overlooked and
ignored. We walk on carved-out steps and worn-through carpets
without appreciating the visual links to the moments that created
and defined them.
My work is focused on the marks we make on spaces and people,
and how they in turn leave their marks on us.
By layering different mark-making techniques, I explore and
transcribe the overlapping memories apparent in us and in our
surroundings. Produced with various mediums and non-archival
materials, these ephemeral pieces mutate and change, mirroring
the construction and deconstruction of our environment. Installations
and prints are subjected to my movements and moods,
actions and energies, thus retaining their own narrative and
marks from their previous form.