Through her artistic practice, Burack explores and shares the physical, psychological, and poetic qualities of these materials and spaces. What is the space between bodies and the materials around them? How do humans experience their possessions? How do these elements of daily life teach intimacy, engage the senses, provide comfort, heal, invite rest, and elicit pleasure?
Many of her projects explore the site of the bed and the legacy of sleep. She looks at experiences of sleep to reveal hidden layers of materiality and consciousness. Burack considers the bed to be a rich, contemplative site to look at our experience of rest in a swiftly-paced 21st century. In creating spaces, sculptures, rituals, and collages, she draws connections between the material and the immaterial, the horizontal and the vertical, the visceral and the technological, two dimensions and three dimensions, and ultimately, the conscious and unconscious.
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