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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
MESSAGE FROM THE ACTING DIRECTOR
SCHOOL OF ART
ABOUT THE SITE
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LORIN AUGER REN LAM HALLEY RITTER
LEANDRA BRANDSON WENDY LLOYD EMILY ROFFEY
TAYLER BUSS CHASE MARTIN BENNY SUN
DEANNA DAVIS KARRIE McEWAN SARAH THOMPSON
EDTIE DOLL ARA PENNER RACHEL WAGNER
TAMIKO KAVANAGH HANNA REIMER ERNEST ZARZUELA
TAYLER BUSS

I am an emerging artist working with photography, video, and sculpture. Through still-life photography and sculptural assemblage, my practice recontextualizes familiar materials while exploring an anxiety surrounding temporal moments and digital preservation.

Still life imagery of everyday objects comprises my photographic practice. Objects are paired in an unusual fashion. These compositions offer odd juxtapositions, producing an uncanny effect. Reflected through this unsettling emotion is a modern-day anxiety surrounding photographic preservation within a digital society. By photographing fleeting compositional set-ups, I preserve physical, temporal moments through immaterial digital photography.

My sculptural practice re-contextualizes found objects through the juxtaposition of materials. Found objects are paired with industrial materials such as wood, steel, and concrete while recalling associated cultural narratives. Cold steel is juxtaposed against soft materials such as fabric, contrasting industrial strength against comforting domestic.

Inside the gallery walls, the viewer is forbidden from touching the work, forcing them to imagine the physical feelings the materials elicit. The materials chosen provoke a faux sensory stimulation within the viewer. This sensory experience prompts the viewer to consider their own physical strength, in relation to the materials. Bending tempered steel is physically impossible, whereas elastic is physically manipulatable.

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