About Eden

Eden Tighe is a metalsmith and textile artist with a B.F.A. in Studio Arts, concentrated in Jewelry and Metals, from PennWest Edinboro University. Her main focus is making sculptural body adornment and jewelry that communicate relational interactions. Her interests in wildlife, color, and texture act as common themes to symbolize her studies exploring personal experiences.

Statement

With performative body adornment and objects, I create powerful experiences to invoke more understanding in our world. As an interdisciplinary artist, I assemble various materials to craft a concrete entity. These storytelling objects consist of both metal and textile sculptures and jewelry, which are conceived from personal experiences and narratives. Furthermore, their values of color, proportion and placement on the body help to illustrate these experiences. Each process transports me to a mindfulness place, to analyze the relational interactions in these experiences. Overall, my work is an act of perseverance, using the process as a means of conquering struggles: the hardships of navigating life as a trans woman. It also provides a whimsical lens to my past that cannot be felt with spoken words but as a visual experience. Overall, I reach out to others to help feel validated and seen.