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Artist Liz Ruest
Bellevue, Washington USA
Food and Shelter
Digital Art
Artist Statement
The colors and textures in this piece bring to mind Roman ruins in Provence. I wonder why that is? The base, handmade collage is not particularly French or Roman: it has monoprint scraps, some book text, and a marked up piece of green paper that I used as a catchall when working. Digital layers atop the base help bring together a sense of that French ancestral family connection. There’s a small detail from a beach fence in Normandy, and some rooftops from the south of France. Then I added mosaic tile and marble details that make me think of old Roman construction, even though they-re from Chicago! The color wash, from a grid of leaf prints, adds the terracotta hue that is so much a part of Provence. It’s balanced by some green from watercolor washes and a boat wake. Texture from stone, microscopic details, and barnacles add a sense of age.
From my 2014 series, Building Blocks, which features pieces with a handmade collage as the base, a gridded square composition, and multiple layers of repeated common elements across the series, representing the choices we’ve made and their effects that build to create our lives.
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