April Claudio

As a multidisciplinary artist, I reflect on how internal landscapes affect atmosphere and vice versa.

I draw from fantasy and esoteric studies to examine the sidelines of humanity's frayed relationship with Earth, and my personal understanding of the concept of home. I find inspiration in organic matter using structural analysis with the naked eye: growth patterns of forests, subconscious symbolism correlated with star formations, sacred geometry, and so forth.

My multidisciplinary process begins with observational study and photography in natural spaces. The research I collect guides the intuitive, imaginative work that follows. I believe artists must tether vision to lived experience of the natural world, whatever that means to the individual.

At the intersection of my life and practice I ask: How can traditional expression and technology transform in the hands of artists to create environmental documentation for a community—art that can observe nature's vulnerability and honor it?