Soil Studies

Ruth Borum-Loveland creates her own language of place during meditative walks near her home in Oklahoma. She builds a library of color studies from the soil and rock samples she collects and pulls lines of dirt with a brush on paper, bonding the lines with egg yolk. Exploring aspects of the lived experience that are eternal, elemental, and outside of measurable time and jurisdiction, she views the pigment hunt as both a connection with her natural environment and a formal analysis of the subtle variations in color and texture. Her artistic practice is an accumulation of records of where she has been; and the study of these records carries emotional, geographic, and geological information both known and beyond understanding.