Charli Beck 2026

Abstract

Lambing Season: Being Here, Becoming-with is the archive of a moment in a place-based, embodied creative practice. The collection demonstrates the materials, narrative, and affect of the artist's time spent in residence at Sugarfield Farm in Astoria, OR during lambing season. It consists of a family of wool weavings which act as containers for materials found at the farm, a series of drawings of the sky as seen each day, a field journal sketchbook used to track the details of the experience, and a set of illustrations made from the sketchbook afterward to show the narrative setting. Together, this collection is intended to demonstrate the complex balance between fresh, sweet, calm moments and those of mud and labor that go had in hand in life on a farm.