Anneke Wilder
Assemblage: Ecological Bodies
Anneke Wilder explored the countryside of her South Carolina home as a young person. Her curiosity about nature has stayed with her wherever she goes. Drawing accompanied her on those journeys. In college she studied biology and ecology in a serious way, then chose to combine both interests in making a career. Her newest body of work, Assemblage, continues to explore the growth, decay, and regrowth ideas that are important to her as an artist. Something grows from the inevitable decay, creating a circuitous pathway in nature, whether a Bic Lighter sprouting mushrooms or a flower growing out of a human skull. A human eye peers out from a ball of moss, as if to ask for redemption.
