Potential Energy

A beedallo art exhibit

NOV 2023

Beedallo grew up in Los Chavez, a small strip of farmland between Los Lunas and Belen New Mexico. Much of her work is an attempt to combine her love of cartooning with traditional folk art and imagery passed down from her family to express complex, conflicted, and often surreal experiences with the land, family, and tradition.

*Potential Energy exhibit 2023. Photo by Gary Shaw.*

Potential Energy: Artist Statement

The pieces in this series were created with an emphasis on energy that is about to be released. Stored energy created by the position and stresses of objects, captured by static images before the inevitable. This implied tension is a response to the world around us. Stresses building up and releasing rapidly and catastrophically beyond our control. The looming feeling of something enormous on the edge of collapse. The series is meant to be a pause in a constantly moving existence. Confrontations that are still, and narratives that can only be completed with the viewers own experiences and imagination.

-Beedallo