Emily McDonald is a multidisciplinary artist, shepherd and shearer living in Virginia. Working with wool, botanical inks and dyes she creates assemblages investigating the visual language formed from the mingling of historical, ecological and personal connections. The hopeful result being that attention is centered on the relationship between humans and their environment, how it shapes us and all the vibrant forms of communication, reflection and navigation we’re offered.

For Meander the concept of a meander map as a geographical tool is reimagined and repurposed as a means of traversing the shifting and evolving course of a personal narrative. Consisting of wool and botanical ink assemblages the works convey various bodies of water interacted with over the course of a lifetime interspersed with historical, ecological and personal associations. As the narrative progresses the rivers overlap and intertwine, forging chimerical landmarks of experience and memory.