Daniela Molnar
daniela molnar
Daniela Naomi Molnar is an artist, poet, and writer working with the mediums of language, image, paint, pigment, and place. She is also a wilderness guide, educator, and eternal student.
She works across and between forms including painting, poetry, prose, site-specific intervention, editing, and teaching. Regardless of genre, her goal is to shape and nurture generative new questions, feelings, and ethics about what it means to be human at a time of socioecological crisis.
Her work for the past several years has focused on issues of climate justice and climate grief. The materials she uses are themselves bearers of meaning. She makes many of her paints from pigments gathered from urban and wild public lands, combining these pigments with water from rain, rivers, hot springs, taps, and oceans.
As a writer, Daniela works in poetry, essay, and lyric essay forms. She also works in hybrid forms, melding the unique languages of poetry, essay, color, and line. Poet Solmaz Sharif has described her writing as “tendrilic, electric, a mind in swift action.” Her writing focuses on explorations of consciousness, selfhood, grief, isolation, and interconnection via topics such as color perception, climate chaos, wildfires, wilderness, and wandering.