Offering: Meaning Making and Legacy Projects
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Registration (required) www.northcoasteolcollective.com/events-one/meaning-making-and-legacy-projects-543ym-ymhy5-7tzxw
Presenter: Carolina Starrett, MFA – Cofounder, North Coast EOL Collective
An artist talk and info session on the value of legacy projects in end-of-life care with co-founder Carolina Starrett.
Carolina Starrett, co-founder of the North Coast EOL Collective, explores the intricate structures of families, both physical and psychological, in her work. Originally from Southern California, Carolina contemplates the resilience inherent in each family iteration, considering how stories and language are embedded in the body and transmitted across generations.
With a dual focus on her roles as a doula and artist, Carolina employs materials and processes as tools for celebration and inquiry into how we collect, retain, and honor memories. Her artistic journey delves into the interplay between stories of family, community, and connection, inviting audiences to reflect on the profound capacity of objects to sustain and perpetuate relationships.
Carolina’s work meditates on the body as a vessel of love and memory, inviting viewers to contemplate the enduring significance of these intertwined elements in the fabric of human experience.
Recent Acknowledgment: “Creative threads run through my family ……..Carolina Starrett and her Legacy Project work with the North Coast EOL Collective to hold the legacy idea close and dearly. My family’s legacy takes many forms – my grandmother and sister making clothes, my mother’s pottery, my father’s photographs, my niece’s fabric art, my sister’s dyed fabric, my brother-in-law’s paintings. To add my sketches to my family’s legacy took some resolve, as my work was intentionally snapshots of a year in time. But how else is a legacy created really, if not by multiple layers of stories, memories, impressions, creative marks made by, spoken by, or held by loved ones? This collection is my first Legacy project, maybe not my last. It was guided by the gentle, caring, and able hand of Carolina.”
