Abigail Doan

Featured: March 4th, 2025

I collect books, ephemera, botanical and geological specimens, textiles, vessels, as well as vintage tools and craft artifacts. Collecting allows me to think freely about how I want to visually archive or categorize my studio work, how I am conceptually indexing things, and what the connections between the materials might be. This process or experience allows me to work more intuitively in the studio and also loops back to my concerns about preservation and what we might need to or want to preserve. My collection has evolved primarily in the way that I document forms, materials, and texts. This has evolved into its own narrative for my practice, but also exists outside of any formal art studio concerns and allows me to just wonder and care about quieter aspects of existence.