PERCEPTIONS
Float
Where do we put our flesh? BY RACHEL HELLMANN CLAIRE BOWMAN ’19’99
MY WORK IS CONCERNED WITH SOCIETY’S STANDARDS FOR WOMEN AND THEIR BODIES PAINTING ALUMINUM AND perception WOOD, I CREATE OBJECTS THAT BLUR THE andON thePAPER, resulting effects on their of themselves. I seek to address thisDISTINCTION in the hopes of
between painting, and installation. I am influenced by them simple such asdiversely paper airplanes starting sculpture conversations and eventually moving beyond tostructures a more equal and acceptand origami objects lightprinting in physical commanding and shaping thesurface space they occupy. I paint ing—world. Relief canweight reflectyet these concerns. Cutting into the of the linoleum, the sculptures withdeep, hardedge, saturated shapes of color. color inof combination with cast crecreating irremovable marks mirrors theThe experience trying to conform ourshadows bodies to ates a playful conversation between realinto and the illusionistic space. society’s ideals. Like my tools surface, the words and images that saturate our daily lives
dig into our minds and leave imprints.
Photograph courtesy ELLEN MILLER GALLERY
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