"My artistic, approach is the exploration of the tension between what I am compelled to reveal and what I chose to conceal about myself and my complex relationship with my past as a young girl displaced from her native country and living with its consequences overtime. It is my vision and hope to speak to all who have experienced the pressure and trauma that tears them from the world of love, family, and creativity and forces them to suppress and compartmentalize that life in pursuit of a new dream....and reveal a realization that in the end the true dream is only achievable when you release and reconnect with your truth and celebrate its uniqueness."
Interwoven States is the growing and evolving body of work created and presented by New York based Filipina American artist Rose Cameron.
The collection represents Rose’s journey to rediscover and reconnect with her lost past and identity. Displaced and arriving in the United States at the age of 12 from the Philippines, she was met with the strong pressure to forget the life she left behind, deny her true identity and build a completely new one to be accepted and discourage discrimination.
Rose sources experiences and memories from her childhood and reveals, remembers and celebrates the rituals, people, language and colors of her native country. The art and tradition of basket weaving which she learned from her mother serves as the vehicle to moderate her revelation like a powerful shield obscuring deeper thoughts and connections and only providing abstracted glimpses of the beauty and culture underneath. The sampaguita flowers stand for the values of love, dedication, and truth that Rose witness from the resilient women of her country, particularly her mother. She weaves these elements and the story of her past together with her passion for contemporary abstract expression to create a deeply engaging dialogue between her desire to reveal and her need to remain obscure.
Using acrylic as the dominant medium, Rose works each canvas and aims to deliver the depth, texture and spontaneity in her composition that draw the eye to discover the layers and underlying personal story or memory, while giving an impenetrable power to the woven surface.