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Joelle Carey
Joelle Carey
Our young traveller, mushroom, begins her documentation around this strange abandoned town. Decaying before our very eyes as Mush and Earth overtake and consume the environment around mushroom. The process to document such changes are a feat of themselves, but what little souvenirs they were able to gather from the sites were worth it.
The MushRoom Collection represents a lot of the struggles I’ve had to overcome as an artist as far as my own insecurities towards my work goes. A love and appreciation for two very different mediums is part of the fabric that lines this project; as digital illustrations have been a long standing part of my practice, but I found a deep interest in papermaking through printmaking.
Over the course of the past year or so, part of what has been the driving force behind my pieces have been finding ways to combine a part of my practice that I consider my comfort and my home, with another part that allows for a lot of physical experimentation, as well as translating those works to a digital format. This is also why the main themes of the MushRoom collection revolve growth and decay of the digital image as well as organically. Within the spaces that mushroom navigates consists collages of different images and sites of abandoned buildings and watercolour paint textures. The use of abandoned buildings as the site for the space that mushroom navigates illustrates the spaces in which abandoned buildings and towns inhabit; dying or deserted of inhabitants but somehow still overgrown and containing it’s own narrative. Through the use of an Artificial Intelligence learning software called Playfor, thousands of different blends of images were collapsing and growing into one another to create the base of the spaces that mushroom tours. Afterwards, I play with the idea of digital decay further through the method mentioned prior, creating digital paintings on top of it and superimpose images of the paper that I made throughout the digital collages. The growth aspects come from not only the the vegetation that sprouts up throughout the different environments and mushroom themself, but also the animations paired with each of mushroom’s framed photos. As the scene comes to life in these AI animated paintings it becomes a true cycle of decay and regrowth.
Overall, the MushRoom Collection really highlights the personal struggle that I have had with my art practice, throughout my academic career. Showing how while I will find my own working in potential state of decay, that there is always something interesting to find and explore through something abandoned.
Flynn Forester
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In this release of 15 plexiglass trading cards, Flynn Forester has captured the essence of some important people that have made their mark on his being. Each person has been embodied in their own limited edition card. Each participant shared an object of importance with the artist and is represented by the text on the back of the cards. The colors used for each portrait are symbolic of the role they play in the artist’s life such as: parental, instructor, friend, and sibling. The symbolism reflected on each card is the visualization of the energy that each person brings. The series will expand as time continues.
Paper prints are available at the bottom of the page.
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Emily Graf
Hands in Your Food
Emily Graf
Food is a source of nutrients for the body. Food is so much more than this.
It is something that brings people together, something that we hold very close to us.
Food is something that we cherish because it isn’t permanent, it can be taken away from us. We hold onto something that won’t be with us forever, like people. Our friends, family, teachers, we hold them close. As I explore my relationship with food I realize my connection to food is not as positive as most. Struggling with eating different textured foods I found myself becoming pickier and pickier. Only liking a few foods I began to struggle with my weight and how I viewed my body. I was no longer comfortable in my own skin, I began to loose who I was. My art is a journey, it helps break down barriers that I wasn’t comfortable in before. I am no longer afraid of my connection with food
Kayla Hill
Using my camera as a framing device, I investigate human identity in isolation. Focusing on the matriarchs of my family, I explore my projections of their personalities. I sit in my grandma’s and mother’s spaces, wear their clothing, and attempt to embody their being.
A Year Spent Alone allowed me to explore my relationships and surroundings during the pandemic. No longer having the same regimented routine, my life felt less robotic and allowed me to look inward. In A Year Spent Alone, I explored relationships in the canon of my life experience in my work. Emotions, cultures, and environment can all play a part in someone’s true self. As an artist I like to spend time studying my subjects and their systems, resulting in a sense of urgency and intimacy in my work. When examining the different experiences of people in my life, I celebrate the subject. I am essentially interested in creating pieces that make the audience question what life is like for other people. What is identity and what does it mean to truly mean to know someone?
I invite the audience to see what I see. My goal is to create art that makes other people question their identity during times of isolation, perhaps imagining a world outside the immediate one. This project is a mixture of identity, personality, environment and the relationship between three. I wanted to focus on three different people living through the quarantine, Clotelle Hill, Audra Hill and myself. Who are we really? How much of our personality is dependent on others and how much of it comes from ourselves? My family makes me who I am. The deepest unconscious part of the mind is said to be inherited. Looking at things in new ways can result in different ways of thinking. I try to implore that thought process in all the work that I make.