Becky Wilkes

Website: beckywilkesphotography.com
Email: wilkes.becky@gmail.com
Instagram: @beckywilkesphotography

Artist’s Statement

For many years, Wilkes' artwork gravitated to the treatment of the physical world, how trash migrates through the watershed into our larger bodies of water. When the pandemic began, her parents migrated to her home, where she celebrated the beauty of the aging body and the complex and mature relationships that occur when death is prescient. Wilkes continued this exploration and the will to adapt and persevere with her dear friend and fellow artist, Bill Barter. Following his death, she continues her work aggregating the ephemera and refining memories which surround and burden families after a loss.

Artist’s Statement

Navigating the Matrix examines the staggering accumulation of medication administered to the elderly. Printed on Awagami Japanese Washi paper, it mirrors the fragile health of an elder as they near the end of life.