Carly Semon

Instagram: @carlysemon

Website: http://carlysemon.com

Bio: Carly Semon is a Bay Area based visual artist investigating the laws of boundary, brink, and edge through material research and painting. Her background in the physical sciences mixes with ideas of surrealism, sensation, and the human form to offer a unique attention on reality. She experiments with growing biomaterials at her home in Oakland and makes paintings in her studio at Hunter’s Point Shipyard in San Francisco, CA.

Statement: I’ve been growing the sun in a plastic kid’s pool since my 26th birthday. It takes consideration to provide a material with incentive to become animate, but once believing in itself, growth abounds passively. An object initiated into its own right. I’m interested in the chemistry of belief, or what it takes to arrange small freedoms along an amorphous trail of questions. Fixing my attraction to an evolving state. Responding dynamically. I found a book called Light sitting on the curb of Waller Street last year. Much of the narrative surrounds this ‘beach’ in space called the Kefahuchi Tract : “A broth of space, time, and heaving event horizons; an unpredictable ocean of radiant energy, of deep light. Anything would happen there, where natural law, if there had ever been such a thing, was held in suspension.” M. John Harrison. I did what I needed to do to erect this into my line of sight. Now information may be a substance.