Artist Statement

  Art-making is a form of therapy. Creating allows an understanding of subconscious tensions that can not be articulated through words. Finally seeing my imagination come to life provides a time of reflection; the ghosts of children, a childhood blanket flying back to her, the transformation of becoming a golden field of wheat, and the ability to fly away with birds beneath our feet. Everyday objects and unconventional materials are primarily used in my work to deconstruct and piece together by machine sewing or hand stitching to reflect fading memories and the belief that everything is just a brevity of existence.

        Making sculptural garments is a playful response to connect to childhood creativity and imagination. My practice gives me time to access unconscious desires of memory by physically bringing forth the imaginative realm through my work. The invisible world striving to manifest. The dreaming. Thus, constantly living in my reality. The surreal.

Bio

Phoebe Heng is a sculptor and fashion artist born and raised in Dallas, Texas. She received her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL, where she is the recipient of an Honors Merit Scholarship, the Contemporary Practices Department Scholarship, and was as a New Outstanding Artist in the annual schoolwide Artbash Exhibition in 2020, and a recipient of the Body Builder Award for Accessories in 2022 and the Body Builder Award for Sculpture in 2024 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s fashion department.