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MECA's Senior Exhibition: Culminate
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Compulsive skin picking, dermatillomania, or neurotic excoriation is a condition in which the victim is overwhelmed by an unbearable urge to pick at their own skin. At times this condition is brought on by anxiety, depression, or Trauma Reenactment Syndrome triggered by past events. Subject A felt compelled to collect and document the byproducts of the disorder and used knitting as a way to attempt to replace the act of picking. These are documents of a month and a week in that life.
“Subject A: 7 Days”
March 2012
Concealer, blood, tissue, gold leaf, and hand-spun wool
“Subject A: October 2011”
November 2011
Cocoa butter, aloe vera, thread, tissue, blood, concealer, and lotionSigh, I can’t believe that its all over.
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High Resolution16”x16” watercolor with walnut ink.
TAKE THAT GAIL. TAKE IT.
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High ResolutionHomage to the wondrous Hokusai.
AKA it felt nice to make art that wasn’t about me or for me for a change.
It’s about 5”x5”
I was holding off on posting this- it was a gift.
Enjoy.
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High ResolutionAlso, here, have some old print stuff that I did last year.
Silkscreen on top of a digital print.
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High ResolutionHere’s this year’s Valentine’s card that I printed for the First Friday art walk.
“shawty, imma only tell you this once: you’re the illest
and for your lovin’ imma die hard like bruce willis.”Basically, I needed to make silly work alongside some of the heavier stuff I’ll be making this semester. Also, its Nicki Minaj and Bruce Willis in a Valentine’s Day card, what more could you want?
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dry point.
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High Resolutionfront and back of a silkscreen on tissue.
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High ResolutionTop Image: Silkscreened surgical mask, one layer green, one layer glow in the dark.
Bottom Image: Packaging.
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High ResolutionPRIORITY MAIL doodles have first priority over doing the dishes.
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High ResolutionHere is another one of the drawings that I was working on a few days ago.
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High ResolutionThe other day I took a video of me picking. Its roughly 5 minutes long and really hard to watch. I had meant to only record about 30 seconds of video before getting caught up in the act and going on longer than I had intended.
I took screencaps from it and started drawing and tracing my form and seeing how my hands and head shift from shot to shot. I started to overlay them using tracing paper, lining myself up by my knees.
I’ve fallen in love with these figures when I don’t think of them as me, or as me picking. I love the way the lines interact with eachother. How some are strong and others fade, similar to the scars I carry on my arms.
I hope to turn these into etchings which I will print on lightweight mulberry.
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High ResolutionI’ve just recently begun taking my tissues from my work that I showed for the 2011 Merit Show and using them in new pieces.
I’m focusing on the organic shapes of the blood stains on the tissues and how the tissue can imitate skin. I’m abstracting the blood by sealing it under a layer of plastic and then gold leafing the stain so the blood is no longer visible.
Through my meticulous application of gold leaf I hope to convey the idea of the sacred and profane of this dermatillomaniac’s act. Each stain is cherished though covered up.
Gold echos the relief/joy/pride that I feel every time that I peel off a scab; yet it also serves the same purpose as my long sleeves do; a cover-up, a concealer.It is sort of a shameful, hidden obsession, that through documentation and mania has become sacred and beautiful to me.
It's called CMY, K?
This is a journal of my experiences as a printmaking major at Maine College of Art. This is a document of my work and process.
I'm all over the place and everywhere all at once.
Contact: rhart@meca.edu
