Priscilla Merrick's pieces are less traditional landscapes and usually focus up-close on a small part of a particular place or environment. The primary subject of her work involves the exploration of fields and marshes and reflect Merrick's perspective of these wide open places. She juxtaposes this concept of the open vistas, with the tight and enclosed refuges that can also be found within those vast expanses. Her work is strongly influenced by memories of her own childhood meanderings through these enigmatic places.

Priscilla often uses the Western Apache term "place-worlds" to describe her work. This term refers to a specific geological site in which the place itself contains a strong connection to the past. The act of recalling thes places thus strengthens the ties to the past and forms a significant tool of communication. In her "place-worlds" Merrick confronts both order and chaos within nature's infinite boundaries, and feels that she "approaches each piece as a memory and exploration, covering a range of images and perceptions in which seemingly unimportant formations such as a dried leaf or new shoot, become the focal point of my visual language. These are the landscapes that are ingrained in (her), recalled and resurfacing as fragments that envelope or release their own contents."

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