Noah Eubanks
He/Him
Pinetops, NC, America
“Noah Eubanks is from Eastern North Carolina and is working on his BFA at ECU. He primarily works with metals but also dabbles in ceramics. Noah is the president of their metals guild and helps build community with others in his department.”
“I am interested in making work featuring insects and flowers and how those forms interact and tell a story with one another. I allow myself to restore my childlike wonder of the natural world and am reclaiming my sense of self through my work.”
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How does your work relate to the theme of restoration?
“I explore the restorative power of nature. Nature is healing. No matter how much we take, nature is always fighting to make itself whole again. I try to do that in my work. How do two people, bugs, flowers, shapes, colors, etc. interact with each other?”
"For One Another" Noah Eubanks
How does your creative practice allow you to restore (renew, return, reclaim, recover)?
“Learning how to make and create has been the greatest tool in my mental health toolkit. I find myself more grounded and centered when I sit down at my bench to make a new piece. It's meditative, it's restorative, it's the best medicine. In high school, I was told to "be a man" because I liked to make art, pick flowers, and collect butterflies. I now take that hate and use that energy in my work. I like to see how far I can balance the masculine and feminine energies in my work. I allow myself to restore my childlike wonder of the natural world and am reclaiming my sense of self through my work.”
As a queer+, artist, what do you see can be, needs to be, or cannot be restored?
“I think finding love organically is very rare now. We essentially allow ourselves to go shopping when looking for a partner on dating apps. Sometimes, when we do find that connection with someone organically, it can be scary for the pair to explore that feeling of closeness. I fear finding love organically is something that cannot be restored unless we, as a society, change.”
Photographs Courtesy of the Artist
Anything else you would like to share about this work? This can be an important part of the process, sourcing materials, or research.
“The actias dubernardi adult only lives one to two weeks, unable to eat, with the main goal in finding a mate to reproduce with. They also exhibit a more extreme form of sexual dimorphism. The females are larger and have a pale blue-green hue while the males are smaller and are mostly pink. I wanted to explore this dicotomy in how two beings can be so different yet the same in "For One Another".”