Aveyah Craver
The Walls Speak, 2024
Paper, wheat paste varies
Architecture is a shelter for and spectator of living beings. If the walls came to life, how would they express what they have witnessed? I do not think that the walls would speak verbally, I think that their mode of communication would be like that of trees and stones, the architecture of nature. The growths in this piece are inspired by mushrooms and wasps’ nests. These natural formations indicate rot or infestation, but these states are not fundamentally bad. One entity is simply giving way for a new entity to prosper.
Aveyah Craver
I became something else., 2024
video 5:27
I use shadow and narration to track how my understanding of home and self has shifted through my life so far. The shadows are created by pieces of paper cut into the symbols I use in my work. They are both visual aids to the storytelling and give context to the other works that use these symbols. I chose to capture shadows of objects because they exist between tangible reality and intangible perception. Rather than a history of events, this story is record of the shifting, unstable perceptions that form my reality.
Aveyah Craver
Sterling Highway, 2025
Handmade cotton paper, 5 minute video, ambient sound 146x164.5x138" (varies)
Sterling Highway is a two lane road in Alaska that was part of my dad's favorite family drive. The views on this road are Cook Inlet, a body of water too wide to see across, and the base of the Kenai Mountains draped in rockfall netting. This installation is a fabrication of this landscape.
