Rochelle Peeler: capstone
Date
2016
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Peeler, Rochelle, artist
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The artist's statement: "Alice laughed, "There's no use in trying,' she said: 'one can't believe impossible things.' - 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen." Through the Looking Glass, Carroll, Lewis - To be as curious as Alice yet be assertive as the Queen, making art isn't an impossible thing especially when it comes to printmaking. My art reflects my love for storytelling and making up characters. I love finding ways to create narratives and made frozen windows to worlds; some known like "Alice in Wonderland" or "Through the Looking Glass" and others from my imagination. When I create art I found myself engulfed in the process, like in a trace or self-meditation, and just keep adding more and more: from layers of ink from the studio to the globs of hot glue, I find myself pushing boundaries and try to make the piece as different as I could make it. In the end of this process I have made two different series, the "Self-Monster Portraits" and the "Wonderland Series". The "Wonderland Series", I turned an innocent story into a dark one by rearranging parts of the original story. It was my way to have fun while making art and create a world that suggests criminal activity from our beloved Alice. Think of it as a dark comic with the canvas as the panels. As for the "Self-Monster Portraits" is about one person and how she sees herself; throughout the series we see her change form and become different characters to suit the environments needs, like a personality switch. Though in real life, which is represented with real objects, she appears normal and has distracting features to draw away from her faults that marks her skin, to the sides of her reflects her insecurities and "ugliness". As her environment changes, so does her armor... making her a different person each time.
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Colorado State University Art and Art History Department capstone project.
Capstone contains the artist's statement, a list of works, and images of works.
Capstone contains the artist's statement, a list of works, and images of works.
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printmaking