About

          Kelsey Dawn Pearson’s work often includes illustrative and graphic imagery with little breathing room, rendered using print and fibres. Through the use of craft techniques taught to her by her mother and grandmothers, she reflects on functionality and it’s in(ability) to blur aesthetic value. She develops imagery composed of figures emerging from a natural environment, like smoothed rocks protruding from the dirt. These images illustrate outwardly confrontational narratives while pointing inward at personal doubts and prolonged dysmorphia. 

Why is flesh so dangerous?

Her work is seemingly supernatural, chaotic and colourful swampwater.

Fictions of Fictions

They often pair exterior scenes with domestic symbols. They wade in the spaces where they meet. They explore themes of distorted reality, confront personal ethics, battle dysphoria, bridge fiction and the present through the use of portals, pry at trauma, loss and guilt, touch and feel, and challenge perception…

In a world bordering ours