Detail of echo)zero(stone 2. Natural and synthetic pigments, rainwater and river water on paper. Image courtesy of Daniela Naomi Molnar.
DANIELA NAOMI MOLNAR
Daniela Naomi Molnar is an artist, poet, and writer working with the mediums of language, image, paint, pigment, and place. She is also a wilderness guide, educator, and eternal student. A cornerstone of her practice is to be resolutely non-competitive, non-expert, and committed to always changing.
Her art is about transmuting grief to wonder in order to help shape and nurture generative new questions, feelings, and ethics about what it means to be human at a time of socioecological crisis.
Climate justice, climate grief, and intergenerational trauma are topics she's focused on in recent years. These intractable issues tend to break hearts closed — her work aims to pry those breaks open so that we can ask better questions of ourselves and our world.
Her primary tools to facilitate this transformation are color (in visual work), and sound (in language work). Both color and sound are direct paths to embodiment. Ideas need bodies. Good questions can’t be asked when we are trapped in our brains. My work celebrates the boundless generosity and feral memory of materiality (pigments, water, and language as a bodily force).
Daniela can be found in Portland, Oregon, exploring public wildlands, or at www.danielamolnar.com / Instagram: @daniela_naomi_molnar
echo)zero(stone 4, synthetic and natural pigments, rainwater and river water. Image courtesy of Daniela Naomi Molnar.
Detail from echo)zero(stone 8; synthetic and natural pigments, rainwater and river water on paper. Image courtesy of Daniela Naomi Molnar.
New Earth 14 (The Arctic), synthetic and natural pigments with rainwater on paper. Image courtesy of Daniela Naomi Molnar.