Sommer Roman maintains an eco-sustainable studio practice transforming post-consumer textile discards in to evocative playful forms that are invitations back to our wild and whole selves.  Through evocative color, organic forms, and materiality, Roman’s work embodies the realm of interconnectedness, play, the wild feminine, the handmade, and the body as potent sites of wisdom and innate aliveness.

All of her work can be thought of as being-ness reimagined; hybrids of our various parts that yearn for full reclamation: plant, animal, human, feral, tame, physical, invisible, joy, and sorrow.  The act of transforming used clothing is a conceptual act to contend with ubiquitous relatable materials that are potent with memory and human life energy.  Roman’s intuitive and laborious process of transforming the materials into vibrant new forms is a metaphorical symbol of rebirth as an ever-present possibility and embodies the enchanting intelligence of both body and material. The resulting sculptures are in themselves feminist acts of resilience and survival, as they rise from a pile of abandoned cast-offs with their own renewed life force professing a universal birthright for wildness, beauty, joy, play, sensuality, and aliveness.  

Roman’s work holds links to movements within craft, feminism, and surrealism.