Exploring Uncertainty: An Interactive Art Exhibition (Part One: Personal Uncertainty)

Ellen Croft's three-dimensional works reflect her unmediated, interactive approach to the physical world. Through a filter of contemporary political and capitalist constraints, her engagement comes from a place of rebellion where uncertainty is met with artistic intent. Working in large-scale, she cuts, tears, and reassembles materials sourced from previous works of art, including original drawings from her sketchbooks, that result in new abstract forms. Through this experimental process of destroying and reconstructing, old into new, the artist examines identities and classification within the “abstract,“ where the boundary between representation and invention remains undefined.

Crofts’ process embraces uncertainty. The element of surprise in constructing and assembling these ephemeral works deploys a method to explore the tensions that exist in the personal and political present. Balancing the delicacy and weakness of her repurposed materials reveals how instability can guide creative potential. Her work defies certainty and resists definition, allowing herself and viewers to re-discover new ways of building meaning, forging connections, and weaving identity.