During a period of isolation in her Bountiful childhood home, Nakita Shelley created her series Porous Flux offering raw red insights on finding sanctuary in the body. The visual embodied pieces carry tension and suppression directly influenced by the nuanced constructs from trauma, isolation, and physical mobility, that Shelley herself felt during this period. The included drawings, prints, and soft sculptures focus on a range of abstracted biomorphic forms, folds, and the intimate female body.
By both the representation of the activity and inactivity of the pieces and in the physical creation, Shelley is breaking that chain of inactivity in herself, allowing the embrace of the natural fundamental needs with a “fluid response from one state of being to another”, says Shelley. Her work offers the viewer a space for intimate reflection of the closeness of the bodily presence, a fleeting illusion of the vulnerable one-on-one experience that so many need. For Shelley, these pieces act as visual markers that make up the body as a roadmap, always in flux, from traumas, isolation, and outside influences which all transition into finding a balance and resolution to growth.
