LAUREN E. C.

Serial Working: On Paper The Place and Clay Falls Acrylic, ink, graphite, and oil on paper Based on the style of Friedrich Kunath, I aimed to make surrealist depictions of locations from my childhood. The Place was somewhere my sister and I would play and relax. It was our private escape. It was our magical root stretching across the creek bed, perfectly placed by nature just for us. Clay Falls was a place of inspiration and disappointment. The white clay by the water promised sculptures and pottery, but was filled with tiny stones, proving unmoldable.  There was also a wonderment about these locations. I attempted to capture it in my art. I wanted to use Kunath's strange style of imagery to highlight childlike imagination. It is difficult, then, not to be consumed by my own nostalgia for the forest. A part of me fears that that is exactly what I've done. However, in order to be completely honest to these locations, it was necessary that I didn't entirely eliminate th

Serial Working: Off Paper Left to Right Video Tasked with creating videos demonstrating movement, my initial thought was to do something with my hands. My idea was to create short videos in which I attempt to do things with my left hand to the same level that I do them with my right hand. I have always been fascinated with the idea of ambidexterity. My father and grandfather are both ambidextrous, and when I was little, I wanted to be like them. However, I could never quite get the muscles in my left hand to cooperate like I can with my right. This has never stopped my from trying. In the first video, I am trying to catch a ball with my left hand. First, I show myself catching it with my right hand to establish a baseline which I'm trying to achieve, and then I am repeatedly attempting to catch the ball with my left hand in a similar manner. In the second video, I am attempting to draw in a simple, circular motion equivalent to my right hand. This was something I used to do r