Gallery Purchase with funds raised during the 2018 Give Campus Campaign

In Manhole, viewers encounter the artist’s experience of literally “reuniting with the earth.” The artist is depicted buried in the ground to her neck. Neuman remarks that one of her most recent inspirations in her work has been the practice of Buddhist mindfulness meditation, as a way of grounding herself in the moment at a particular time when technology takes so much precedence in our lives. Neuman’s work in a digital medium is an attempt to create new technologies that can “make us whole.” Manhole is indeed meditative, as it forces the viewer to slow down and observe the artist’s presence in nature–a presence that is mediated digitally.