ARTWORK

Over the years, I’ve worked through a range of traditional craft practices — yarn + bead painting, rug hooking, punch needle, embroidery, sewing. These works are tactile contemplations.

I make work that asks me to slow down and be transformed through the act of making itself.

For me, to sculpt is to take responsibility for what I give form to — inwardly and outwardly. It is a practice of reclamation, recollection, and re-imagination.

My work unfolds through what I think of as the essential “3 Rs”:
not reading, ’riting, and ’rithmetic —
but rhythm, ritual, and record.

Rhythm

A return to a more attentive pace.
A way of working that allows the body to soften, perception to deepen, and something quieter to emerge.

Ritual

The practice of showing up repeatedly — creating the conditions for dialogue, transformation, and discovery through process.

Record

Each piece becomes both artifact and offering:
evidence of a release,
a re-patterning,
a changing of the record.

The work holds the trace of a transformation that has occurred — and continues to speak beyond its making.

Sculptural quartet of beaded basketballs
Harmony of the Spheres
DOWSINGDRESS
Re[Collection]
IN_HABIT_Quartet--MarinaDempster
In // Habit
Commissioned bust
Commissioned Bust
Photo: Christina Gapic
Paddle Project
VORACIOUS-main
In // Sensitive
Artwork--In-The-Time-Being-09
In // The Time Being
Dear_Friends_Near_Enemies_2--Marina_Dempster
Dear Friends // Near Enemies
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Other Artifacts
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