‘before, now, again, always’

32’x15’ Latex on Drywall Mural in Kimball Junction, UT

This mural is about the cycling of all things, beginnings becoming endings becoming beginnings. It is a sacred endeavor to be in the circle called living, sometimes a frightening one. Among the dangerous and beautiful things we learn about and wander among, safety in the center. Safety, calm, knowledge that everything that feels over is made anew, nothing created nor destroyed (energy, matter, experiences, elsewise). We remember about these hearts, minds, bodies of ours. we remember how to feel safe inside it all, painful bits included. Gravity is never not holding us safe. Moonflowers bloom right when the sun goes to sleep, the moon opens and closes her face, month by month marching. the rhythms to remember, the rhythms to dance with. All of it, chaos. All of it, music.

Caro’s dream-like, impressionistic landscapes pull the viewer into a specific place that feels outside of time. Gestural marks eddy beneath swaths of color-shift or tactile embroidery thread. Her paintings straddle the line between real and imaginary- understanding the notion that everything is always both. Caro paints primarily from memory, focusing more on the way a place felt than the facts of how it looked. In this way, memory morphs and heightens the shapes, shadows and colors of her landscape- blurring the facts in a way that feels more honest and true to the experience that it came from. At its heart, Caro’s work is about a personal relationship with landscapes, and all of the human and non-human influences and presences within them.

Rooted in traditions of impressionism, Caro’s paintings depict worlds in which the act of observation (beyond just that of sight) plays a role in their creation. By simply noticing magic within the mundane, the world that we live in becomes full of mystery and excitement, a world of hidden stories, meant to be uncovered by those who take the time to listen.

currently on view //

Caro’s work is currently on display at the following locations:

Porcupine Pub - Wintertime Retrospective

Canyonlands Regional Airport - Chasm // Moab, UT

UPCOMING //

Eccles Art Gallery - Smoke Portal Project, Spring 2024

Stockists //

Atelier Salt Lake City, UT

Moab Made Moab, UT

Red Canyon Co Hurricane, UT