Caressa Layne
Caressa Layne is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator. She received her BA in Studio Arts from Ball State University (IN) in 2020 with a concentration in Metalsmithing. She has since continued to hone her studio artwork and explore a writing and poetry practice.
Her work explores themes of a cyclical nature—often attempting to nudge the gap between human experience and the natural world. She celebrates the disturbing alongside the delightful and pursues concepts that bridge the divide between elevated thought and animal impulse.
Caressa currently serves as Director of the Galleries at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
“My written and visual work are a celebration of the stitches that barely separate disgust and delight. Inspired by epistemology and existential philosophy, my work allows me to explore the fascination for existence which grips me by the throat. In a world as awe-inspiring as it is repulsive, why would I ignore one part of nature in favor of the other? Even as my perspective oscillates between adoration and disgust, my processes explore my devotion to the whole. From the effervescent quality of laughter and tenderness, and to sweat and blood; all of these things are woven together in our imperfect, irresistible existence. ”
-Caressa
