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5 Pieces by Zoë Fredrick
From the Artist:
This body of work investigates the fantasy world of the reality television series “The Bachelor” and utilizes it as a device to focus on our fascination with the emotions of women, as well as their demonization. These pliable, squishy sculptures exist in a world with an unstable definition of reality. Constant surveillance and an overemphasis on romance is woven into these pillowy structures. Taking cues from the female-led Pattern and Decoration movement and the rich history of storytelling through textiles, the glittery tears of these women hint at trauma and heartbreak.
5 Pieces by VanyaTruong
From the Artist: These photos were selected as my personal favorites from my first film photography class this previous year. I live in a little town by the sea, but there are also small clusters of forested areas, and these photos represent my wanderings around town, the beach, and woods throughout the year.
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Repeal the 8th Amendment | Clare Foley
About the piece: I am fascinated by Irish politics and feminism. Currently in Ireland, there is a feminist movement to “Repeal the 8th amendment to the constitution”. This amendment means that horrific human rights violations have occurred in the area of bodily autonomy and abortion rights; the cases of Savita Halappanavar and ‘Miss X’, to name a few. Continue reading “Repeal the 8th Amendment | Clare Foley”
mimesis: a visual poem | emily yost
Like much of my work, this hovers on the boundary between. What you are seeing is a marriage between image and text—a single image reconstructed, the metadata rewritten, parts deleted, rearranged—to mimic the degradation of memories over time. Studies suggest that the more we cling to fading memories, the more they are misremembered, willfully corrupted into something compatible with our current perspective. Desire clouds memory. Continue reading “mimesis: a visual poem | emily yost”
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