Statement
Juliann creates via a multidimensional practice that expands across installation, sculpture, video, printmaking, and ceramics as well as sound, dance, and performance. Her work is time-based, multi-sensorial, and often includes organic and intentionally delicate materials and processes. These areas of expression focus on the capacity to evoke a coherent vision of communication, harmony, and contemplation.
Intrigued by historical backgrounds, she examines the shifting social environment’s impact on individuals and collective relationships. These inquiries question perceptions of time, space, and belonging through landscapes both real and imagined. Her work responds in dialog to each shifting narrative moment to engage audiences, inspired by the fundamental rhythms of nature and the beauty of existence as a metaphor to impart balance.
Eastern philosophy and spirituality play a significant role in this practice, drawing on folkloric traditions, poetry, and concepts of fragile impermanence. Influenced by her earliest surroundings in native China, that consider humans as part of the natural world tied to the unanswerable mystery of life and existence.
Employing a process of research and curious inquiry, she creates a hybridization of practice specific to each project series. With an inherent appetite for multiple worldviews, her creation embraces the intrinsic beauty of difference and unpredictable nature of things. Through encountering unexpected moments of joy, her hope is to resonate with people regardless of their story, race, politics, gender, or worldview.