LOVE & GRAVITY
2023-2024
These works reflect upon the universal yet deeply personal experience of caregiving. Through layered marks and imagined landscapes Smith invites viewers into an exploration of growth, transformation, and balance. Featuring graphite drawings and cyanotypes made while raising young children, the works explore the push and pull of caregiving; the way it quietly reshapes a person while their own needs step aside. The accumulated marks on paper become a record of invisible labor, and the imagined landscapes as spaces where that experience could unfold and be processed. What she initially felt as loss revealed itself as transformation: a softening that gave way to a firmer foundation.
