2025
Honorable Mention
Ethan Meyer
As a multidisciplinary artist who is neurodivergent and has a visual handicap, I seek to explore my work through alternative functions, e.g., stream of consciousness, automatic drawing, intuitive color theory, etc. This approach allows me to adapt my process to any medium. I have structured my creative practice primarily around fiber and painting, while also working in wood and digital media.
My work, both in painting and sculpture, involves networks of intricately connected, overlapping, and morphing shapes and patterns, reflecting the complex and ever-changing nature of one’s own consciousness. The visually overwhelming nature of the work is handled intentionally as a means of disrupting the viewers cognitive awareness and suspending them in a space that is both familiar and bizarre. The themes in my work concern themselves with universal questions and problems, such as: what is the nature of consciousness, what is the nature of reality, and the inherent difficulty that comes from being both sentient and mortal. My work is ultimately about this exploration of the space outside of physical reality, and what is beyond death.
