PHS: HAIR AND NATURE STUDIES
Priscilla Urrutia and PHS weave natural elements into their series of sculptural works, blending the worlds through the lens of Joriel Cura.
Words by
Marc Basil
Palabra Hair Studio (PHS) challenges the mortality of change in the environment and embraces the abstract personas that landscapes have to offer. As the models are crowned with unique individual pieces, we comprehend that our interaction with nature is not an experience that is separate from the expression of the self. Still, it is exactly a reflection based upon two consciousnesses made of organic matter. It is brought to our attention that there is a unity that can offer us new areas of study. The hair artists have applied themselves to each of their areas of study from cut, shape, form, line, and color to create the embodiment and essence of perceived nature. In the studio, these artists may have unknowingly applied their research into practice and expelled their strengths through a physical form that can be placed on a human or displayed in its itselfness.
This choice to either wear or display proves an instinctual human connection we have to nature; when we are crowned with the knowledge of nature, we and it are embraced as one, and when we are confronted with the displaying knowledge of nature we can find unity in this as well as we see the reflections of ourself.
Placement represents itself in an elicit way in “Hair and Nature studies”. Navigating through each film, each in tune with their own complex emotions; we can see the compilation of films as one whole day. But really, they can emote an eternity lost in nature and time. The PHS team set out a clear intention to translate the auras of abstraction and characteristic. The morning, evening, and night are revelatory to our time-spans. Time stamps that are so routine to us and the environment create the settings for the memories of time.
Not only is the team exploring areas of hair, study, and practice, but they also invite other parts of an artist’s mind that feed the senses with visual and musical choreography. Hair and nature can be the starting points of this study. And through the tangible nature of each hair artist’s wig pieces they create the fruition of art as an extension to the environment. It is an offering that is made between humans and landscape without ownership or possession, but an homage and agreement of being part of it.
