Sammie Jane Hardewig

My work explores the materiality of house paint through process, time, and collaboration. I’m interested in showcasing the paint’s capabilities when pushed beyond its initial marketed intention of covering, protecting, and elevating walls and spaces. In this process-focused, material-obsessed practice, I aim to work in collaboration with reclaimed house paint to expose its potential while visually displaying it for its inherent qualities. Process is considered through testing new applications for the material and through the experiential and relational time spent working with, wrestling with, succeeding with, failing with, and accepting with the paint.