In pursuit of shared language
Margaret Kelsey
Margaret has spent the last decade in tech startups, most recently at a venture capital firm that invested in B2B software. In October 2022, she left in-house work and began to prioritize artistic exploration.
Margaret is an “art-school drop out”, having changed her major from Visual Arts to Public Relations at University of Florida in 200…something. But it was never too far away.
While still in college, she studied photography for a semester in Paris with Sergio Vega. After college, she spent two years as a portrait photographer, traveling between studios in Palm Beach, FL and White Plains, NY.
The last decade of her life has been a gradual (and then quite sudden) re-integration of artistic practice.
Artist statement
It’s incredible to me that human beings—each with a completely unique background and processing framework—can ever really communicate with each other.
Language is flawed, incomplete, constantly in flux, and continually open to interpretation.
And to communicate effectively enough to feel seen, heard, and understood? A downright miracle.
The red thread of my adult work—in marketing software products, building high-performing and psychologically safe marketing teams, my personal internal work, and in my art practice—is to create a shared language that makes people feel heard, understood, and that they belong.
I work with cyanotype, digital photography, typography, charcoal, conte crayon, and paint on canvas and paper in an effort to create a shared language between myself and the viewer.