Katrina Niswander
Katrina Niswander is a fine artist working out of her home studio in the rust belt mini metropolis of Toledo, Ohio. She has a fascination with the feeling of home and the spaces in which our most precious memories are made. She believes in the power of self-love and the beauty and power of living your most authentic and aligned life.
“This work is an experiment in bending time and examines the complexities of memory and nostalgia. I create visual love letters between past and present by rescuing discarded photos and creating new lives for these found figures. I search high and low for once-treasured and now-discarded photographic relics and create work that gives them a second life on the wall. I use mixed media to blend textures and surfaces – often working directly on top of photographic reproductions to create graphic new environments for these paper-doll characters. Many of us have lofty expectations for our lives – but in the end it is those small simple moments we share with one another that make each of our lives beautiful. This work serves as a playful reminder to always make time to truly be present and enjoy these special moments. It functions as a totem of our past and of our growth as we move towards even more beautiful futures.”