Artists Statement: Holland creates art in various mediums rooted in detailed minimalism and simplicity. Relying on repetitive actions/materials, such as shading with graphite, using monochrome colors, or patterning, she is often grounded in her process, finding it meditative in a way that reflects the work itself. Her art is her way of being honest with herself — most recently, honest about her relationship with the community.

The exhibition This Is Still Home documents a journey in her relationship with the people and spaces around her, the most prominent ones being her seaside hometown of Hull, MA, and Interlochen Arts Academy. The pieces, often rooted in a hyperspecific time and place, converse with each other across walls to tell a story of home, identity, and community.

With each piece, Holland reclaims the spaces that were once lost and unfamiliar to her, leading to a level of acceptance and understanding of how things change. Inspired by a pencil drawing that reflects on Holland’s shadow in her childhood bedroom, This is Still Home attempts to slow down time, immortalizing pieces of the past and present that Holland knows she will grieve in the future. At times, the pieces ask more questions than they answer: How does identity shift from place to place? Why do good things have to end? How do you find rest in an ever-changing environment?

There is constant searching present in how she observes and creates the world around her. But despite the underlying turbulence, her work also has an assured softness, expressing the core of what she wants to convey — hope. Just as she moves through life, her art relies on her belief that familiarity can be found wherever you look, even in the most foreign places and feelings.