SUN SUN SUN
A Collaborative Work by Aleksandra Zee & Papou
Created during the JTH Tucson Artist Residency
Rooted in a deep reverence for light, land, and intuition, this collaborative body of work emerged from shared time and creative dialogue in the Sonoran Desert. Brought together by the rhythms of the sun and the poetry of desert silence, Aleksandra Zee and Papou explored the intersection of material, gesture, and play, meeting at the joyful edge of structure and spontaneity.
Papou’s work flows from a place of intuitive mark-making and language fragments of thought and dream filtered through color and movement. Papou’s paintings pulse with emotional immediacy and a raw trust in the subconscious.A deep exploration of the dualities of existence live comfortably next to sincerity and vulnerability in their work.
Aleksandra’s practice, known for its grounding in natural textures, light, and repetition, brings a calming architectural presence to each piece. Her reverence for the desert, its shadows, tones, and healing pace, is echoed in the structured wood frameworks that serve as portals for reflection and stillness.
In this collaboration, they leaned into trust: in each other, in the process, and in the place. The sun-drenched days and long quiet hours gave way to pieces that feel at once grounded and alive, like artifacts of a shared language still being written.
“SUN SUN SUN” is both a phrase and a feeling. It captures the repetitive rhythm of the desert, the chant of light over land, and the invitation to pause and look, to find the sacred in the playful, and the playful in the sacred.
