In June Digan’s latest solo exhibition, the designer and illustrator creates a moodboard for self-soothing and self-discovery. Here, the world of the everyday takes on an enchanted quality, brimming to life in shades of azure and peach. As with most of her previous works, these paintings feature children in states of encounter with the natural world, reaching out to birds, wading through water alongside a fish, crouching low amidst a sunrise.
There is a bespoke solitude to these paintings, as if these characters hold some kind of secret knowledge about the ways of the world. A secret that arises from within our most childlike selves.
Holding on to what appears fleeting, Digan deconstructs her scenes, showcasing them in separate paintings as discrete, material objects. Decontextualizing the drama of the original paintings, we see these objects and phenomena in a new light. As tools for another adventure perhaps. Or maybe simply as reminders to keep the wonder within close.
Exhibition notes by Sean Carballo
