This is Your Brain on Art

Paper Mache, Plaster, and Assemblage, 13 x 9 x 8, 2026

A playful expression of opening your mind to endless possibilities.

My work is a celebration of connection, curiosity, and life, as well as a defense against colonialism and exploitation. We live in a time that is veering dangerously away from wisdom, balance, and nature, toward a desire for singular truth, fixed identity, consolidated power, and predictable outcomes. My art is a protective incantation against these control systems.

Heather Timm is an experientially taught artist whose practice is an expression of Quantum Kinship. That is, a deep interconnection between all things as expressed by indigenous wisdom and quantum physics. Both traditions suggest that beneath physical reality lies an energetic, vibrating foundation of aliveness. Whether you call it entanglement or interconnectedness, there is active participation by all of creation in the creation of all things.

Working across mediums, she experiments at the intersection of the traditional and technological.