A Vibrant Surge

Christine Lee Tyler creates artwork that empowers women by restoring their connection to the natural world. In her work, she underscores ecofeminism as the antithesis to patriarchy. By aligning women with nature, she expresses the innate and powerful connection between the feminine and the environment. In her 2-D artwork, the background contains a repetitive pattern that is repeated in a “wallpaper-like” fashion. This controlled, precise process eventually transforms into repetition that is chaotic and unruly until it morphs into a depiction of flora. This aesthetic serves as a metaphor for the mundanity and repetition of domesticity that inevitably falls away to a space that connects a woman back to her surroundings. Tyler also uses ceramics to create installations such as “The Blood Drained from My Face-600 Roses/40 Hours.” In this work, Tyler created 600 roses in a 40-hour time frame. She left them colorless and, in a pile, heaped into a corner to construct a discourse that addresses both Marxist-feminism and ecofeminism. As an ecofeminist artist, Tyler, expresses the fundamental connection between the subjugation of both women and nature. By creating art that combines aspects of women’s lived experiences with earthly surrounding.