© 2008 Emily Eifler, Pili, fiber sculpture of yarn and polyester stuffing (24” x 24” x 24”) Emily Eifler began creating her intricate works of art in 2006 when she experienced an increase in symptoms due to a complex neurological disorder. Seeking a way to objectively analyze her circumstances, in her art she made models of the illness that “doctors could not see.” Her approach has since broadened but she still strives to bring the microscopic, the macroscopic, and the otherwise unobservable to a stage on which they can be experienced and studied at a personal level. Eifler characterizes her crochet sculpture Pili as a method of “exerting control over things that cannot be controlled.” During the creative process, Eifler focuses on the process rather than the end result: “I never have a finished product in mind when I begin,” she says. “I only focus on the smallest building block and let it build up into the dense body of a piece: a bit like mold growing from a spore,” using “meticulous, time-consuming, detail-oriented, and labor-intensive methods of making.” Eifler holds a BFA from the University of Colorado at Denver. |
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