Grace Malooly

Grace Malooly (She/Her/Hers)
Studio Art and Psychology double major

As a resident of Utah, I am deeply concerned about the rapidly evaporating Great Salt Lake and what its demise means for future bird populations. My artwork features five species that are particularly impacted by the lake’s disappearance. The ceramic birds embody the desiccated earth they sit on, taking on the cracked nature of the salt flats. The intaglio prints are created from overlapping smaller groups of individuals to build up a dense flock. This monolith of birds is broken up by ghostly gaps that intersperse the group — representing the individuals already lost to the changing landscape. Together, the crumbling birds and fracturing flocks underscore how the fate of the individual is tied to the fate of the community.