


"Pow" by Kristine Schomaker
This explosive wall installation consists of fragments from meditative drawings created during the early pandemic, drop cloths that caught the overflow of 25 years of painting practice, and paintings stretching back decades—all cut up and reconstructed into dynamic clusters. Eleven different fragments are attached to each keyring and hung together, creating collections that cascade and overlap across the wall surface. The repetitive practice of cutting, organizing, and mounting becomes performance and meditation, transforming individual works into collective power through the mechanism of the keyrings that literally hold everything together.
POW captures the sound and moment of refusing to be contained by past definitions, creating explosive energy through the liberation of fragments from their original contexts. The wall installation mirrors the splintered, non-linear way of thinking and processing, where nothing stays in its assigned place and everything interrupts everything else. The keyrings become both practical mounting system and conceptual framework—keys to unlocking new ways of being that embrace chaos and interdependence over linear narrative. This is the aftermath of making space by destroying what no longer serves, demonstrating that destruction can be generative and that fragments can find new life when freed from their original purposes.
This explosive wall installation consists of fragments from meditative drawings created during the early pandemic, drop cloths that caught the overflow of 25 years of painting practice, and paintings stretching back decades—all cut up and reconstructed into dynamic clusters. Eleven different fragments are attached to each keyring and hung together, creating collections that cascade and overlap across the wall surface. The repetitive practice of cutting, organizing, and mounting becomes performance and meditation, transforming individual works into collective power through the mechanism of the keyrings that literally hold everything together.
POW captures the sound and moment of refusing to be contained by past definitions, creating explosive energy through the liberation of fragments from their original contexts. The wall installation mirrors the splintered, non-linear way of thinking and processing, where nothing stays in its assigned place and everything interrupts everything else. The keyrings become both practical mounting system and conceptual framework—keys to unlocking new ways of being that embrace chaos and interdependence over linear narrative. This is the aftermath of making space by destroying what no longer serves, demonstrating that destruction can be generative and that fragments can find new life when freed from their original purposes.