A principal work in the "Mended" Series, this mixed-media piece further explores our corporeal boundaries - where do we as individuals stop and the rest of the universe begin? In 2022, I almost lost sight in my right eye, but with the unbelievable generosity of a donor, my sight was restored with a cornea transplant surgery. This traumatic experience has changed my life and my art. Always a figurative and still-life artist, I became more aware of the fluidity and relativity of our physical world. I wanted to examine the boundaries of the physical and the abstract, and the most appropriate way to explore that in my art practice, was to begin literally piercing the abstract realm. I used embroidery to create a figure that crosses the divide into abstraction. Yes the pose I chose, one of a woman putting her hands up in a pose of resistance, shows her setting a boundary between her body and the new environment. It's a media choice that brings tension to the work, between realism and abstraction, between two- and three- dimensions and between Art and Craft.

Tammy Flynn Seybold

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I am a painter who studied Art, History of Art and Chemistry at UC Berkeley, and obtained my Masters in Art Conservation from Queens University. My work in museums around the world - including SFMOMA and the National Gallery of Art in Washington - informs my painting practice, and drives me to work in both traditional and non-traditional media and methods. I am from California, but have lived and worked in France, Toronto and Hong Kong. I currently call Vancouver, Canada my home, and when I'm not in my studio, I can be found in the mountains or in the sea.