“Through researching soil layers and layering organic abstractions of plants, soil, and organic forms, I use colors, textures, and line to empower a diversity of exploration and experimentation of materials working together on a painted surface. I am drawn to expressing aspects of the environment, personal growth, life cycles, and plants. As a part of my creative process, I have been investigating the living hardships of what’s it like to be human and about healing through the process of making art. Using this as a catharsis to understand myself and all the things I can’t control. My work has been evolving around the idea of life, death, and emotional states of being in a challenging and trying time. Simultaneously, focusing on developing organic ideas of where we all go when we are gone and decaying 6 feet under.”

— Kayla Borell, Artist’s Statement 2020