Molly Herro

Project Statement

“Pod” is a response to Ursula K. LeGuin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” looking at holes, cavities, vessels, and containers as innate and fundamental to humanity. This body of work delves into the way that preserving things inherently changes both the preserved and the preserver, and the way that everything eventually molds apart no matter how airtight the jar. It is also exploring the relationship between the held and the holder, the pea and the pod, when bodies are containers and containers are extensions of the body. When there is a cavity in these works, there is more room to take in new feelings and information, more sensitivity in tender flesh, the ability to see through the hole like a window into the world.

About Molly Herro

Molly Herro is a sequential image artist from Carmel Valley Village, California. She loves swimming in the river and picking blackberries in the summer. She is inspired to create by artists like Geneviève Castrée, Dominique Goblet, Louise Erdrich, and Ursula K. LeGuin.

MFA in Visual Studies