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Michelle Repici Statement
Artist Statement
The children in my images are beautiful and well dressed, and inhabit a storybook landscape somewhere between a Henry Darger fantasy and a Grimm's fairytale. They occupy the insular dream-state that we recognize as childhood, or a certain idea of what it means to be a child. Though one might initially view their outer beauty as a reflection of an untainted mind, their surroundings tell a different story. I intend these images to demonstrate the push and pull between children's mental and physical purity with the looming danger and corruption of the outside world.
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Process Statement
My process begins first with a pencil drawing of a landscape. Using a flat bed scanner, I scan in the drawing, fabric and other various textures to combine in Photoshop. I then appropriate photographic images of children, mostly from magazines, from which I make additional line drawings. I then scan the appropriated photos, drawings, scanned fabric and textures to combine in Photoshop. I also draw the patterns for the children's clothing, scan them and combine them with scanned fabric to create their final garments. Lastly I combine all of the composited images together and print the finals with archival pigment inks on Kozo-Shi light Japanese paper.
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