Christine Spinder

Artist Statement

Christine Spinder's organic textile art explores how we express and find our relationship to Earth and consciousness through the quantuum symbols and patterns of ritual, the elements, botany, anatomy, birth and death, joy, shadow, archetype, dream, collective, frequency, physics, land, and ancestry. Each element in her art - from the prismatic botanical dyes she hand-makes to the translucent linen and merino wool - is handmade and organic, spotlighting what's possible with the vibrancy and clarity of natural materiality. With a lifetime researching story, somatics, dance, meditation, ritual, ecology, neurodiversity and our senses, and an MA in Jungian Psychology, Christine's art invites viewers to waken their mythic, anatomical, collective intelligences. Self-taught and guided by her autistic synesthesia, Christine's art explores extrasensory worlds that spark change, resilience, and creativity, and our lively connectedness with the conscious world. From spirals and geometries, mythic beings, botany and mountain ranges, water ways and moon phases, cellular evolution and shadow play, the symbols carry global meanings and have been found in quantum astronomy. As a former foster child, Christine began exploring the symbol patterns after a lifetime of dreaming them, finding in them her first sense of home, from her Slavic culture of origin. "I feel something waking inside me," viewers say. "It feels really good." Works are held in private collections in Canada, USA, and Mexico.