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Item Open Access Alyssa Rusco: capstone(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2017) Rusco, Alyssa, artistThe artist's statement: When documentation of place and human experience combine, there comes a hybrid observation of the place itself and how it has been consciously altered and used. In some cases, the traces of human interaction are what make the place either more interesting and contemplative, or unsuitable in the eyes of commercial perfection. One's roots do not only grow in places they live, but places they go. After a decade's worth of travelling to Sanibel Island, since I was 11-years-old, I have become akin to the place itself. In this series, I delved into capturing the true likeness of the sites I already knew for what they were. Without glamorizing, I sought to showcase a tropical location, which encompasses the human and the industrial meeting a previously free, natural space. There are rhythms of natural space, altered space, and human-entered space that became undeniable descriptors of how Sanibel has moved me. Past the obvious exotic beauty, Sanibel owns quirks and imperfections that make it more chewable. My kinship has been with the natural and the altered working together in a seemingly perfect landscape. These moments could not have been charmed out of the place itself without the presence of human life bringing its flavor, creating new aspects of the island.Item Open Access Bailey Douglass: capstone(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Douglass, Bailey, artistThe artist's statement: Inner Dialogue, a collection of tableaux collages that speak to the different ways we mentally process situations and conflict. For me, there are four distinct parts that are in constant inner conflict that I wanted to expose. The four characters in this series are: 1. The Truest Form, my main consciousness. The actions of all the characters directly affect her. 2. A People Pleaser: She wears a red wig to emphasize her need for attention. 3. The Parent: I keep her in my own hair but dress her in blue, a color I associate with nurturing. The parent is complex, trying to keep me safe, making sure everything is as it should be. 4. Depression: I dress her in a black blunt wig with bangs to show her tendency to hide and to emphasize her lack of vibrancy. I play all four of these characters in all my pieces. I photograph them separately and then collage them together later in photoshop to create these narratives. Creating a physical manifestation of these conversations allows me to better understand how I respond to different scenarios. It also makes it easier to recognize when the conversations become toxic or problematic. It has given me the power to slowly change and reframe my thinking. Slowly transferring the power from my characters to the Truest Form. All people engage in Inner Dialogues. Knowing this, we can feel less alone.Item Open Access Christian (CJ) Johnson: capstone(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019) Johnson, Christian, artistThe artist's statement: The focus of my photographic practice and research revolves around exploring abstract concepts, philosophy, and ideas. Concepts such as Liminality, Aporia, and Apeiron interest me because they are concepts that we as humans all experience and, but don't address and acknowledge very often. I use Photography to express these ideas and emotions to bring attention to them and portray them using photography which is a medium that is not commonly known for being used abstractly.To achieve this, I use strategies such as photo manipulation and light painting to give my art an abstract and surreal look in attempt not to fool people, but to make people wonder and ask me how the work is made and to give form to emotions and experiences that would not have form otherwise.Item Open Access Courtney Long: capstone(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019) Long, Courtney, artistThe artist's statement: Based on Sigmund Freud's theories of the unconscious mind, I have created a photographic representation of the invisible self. The unconscious mind creates connections in the brain that are inaccessible to our fluid stream of thought. It records data that influences us in behavior, thoughts and judgement. Freud theorized, like an iceberg, the most important part of the mind is below the surface. The series began during a three-week spree of dream states and nightmares. As a result, a period of contemplation and wonder of the subconscious surfaced in my work. These photos are what I have come imagine my unconscious mind to look like during nightly REM cycles.Item Open Access Erin Bytheway: capstone(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016) Bytheway, Erin, artistThe artist's statement: My photography documents adventures and tells stories. It's a way for me to combine childlike desire to play pretend with an adult desire to have a career. Milky Way depicts the planetary explorations of a space pirate. The camera becomes a window of my ship; I look out and see nebulas, supernovas, gas giants, flat dusty deserts, treacherous polar ice caps, mountainous oceans, and decaying planets. The images themselves are meant to evoke a sense of discovery. I cultivate a landscape in miniature by allowing milk to dry at the bottom of glass, from anywhere between a couple of days to a couple of weeks. Everything from the leftover milk to the collected dust creates textures and patterns that I emphasize using multiple flashlights with colored filters. All of the images are photographed using a digital camera. This allows me to quickly see the results of each photograph. Once I move a light or wash a glass, I cannot recreate the specific conditions of the set up. Viewing each photograph becomes like viewing a planet through a telescope. It's a moment in the past that can never be recreated. The milk will be washed and replaced; the planets will be destroyed and become part of new planets in new star systems.Item Open Access Gabriele Baumann: capstone(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Baumann, Gabriele, artistThe artist's statement: "A picture is worth a thousand words" has always been an inspiration for me and my work. Through my work, I have shown different portrayals of the human being and tried to combine materialistic things and the surrounding environment in these images. I used my digital camera, some lighting techniques as well as creating new poses and angles to capture the image I was hoping for. There is no right or wrong answer to my work, it's whatever the audience wants it to be.Item Open Access Gabrielle Mouton-Kenemuth: capstone(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016) Mouton-Kenemuth, Gabrielle, artistThe artist's statement: Throughout the lifetime of every individual there is an evolution of self that takes place. With every new experience we shatter, and undergo a process of reconstruction. Assimilating pieces of our world and drawing from our relationships, we evaluate the newly filled and reflect on the remaining spaces, recombining ourselves into a new whole. My work focuses on this shared human experience of striving to be whole, dealing with the psychological content behind growth, fragmentation, views of self and states of being.Item Open Access Grace Williams: capstone(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Williams, Grace, artistThe artist's statement: This body of work is a collection of images that aim to show how societal stereotypes for women affect the female mind. This work is a journey through the experiences of different women and their stereotypes. The journey follows through the stereotype, how that stereotype affects them personally, and then finally how they see themselves. The images in the body were made to break the molds that have been set by society on women and show how much labels effect the human psyche. Through my work I want people, particularly women to see that they are more than just the label that they were given by society. The inspiration for this project came from personal experiences and struggles as a woman. As a woman I have battled with my self-image most of my life. This battle may not always be about appearance but also about who I am. As a woman there is this imposed list of labels or stereotypes that society has made for us. You must fit the mold sort of speck to be seen as a 'perfect' woman. These labels could be being a child-bearer, submissive, or wife. Whatever the label or mold may be, each one affects women and how we see ourselves. It changes how women present themselves and how we behave in our world. These labels and how they affect women are the main inspiration for this body of work. However, that is only half of the story. The other inspiration for this project is the destruction of these labels and the construction of our true selves. Through my images I want to show woman that being beautiful is to be yourself. These images were made using a mixture of analog film techniques, physical manipulation, and digital manipulation. All images shot for this body of work were shot on 120mm Ilford Hp5 Plus Black and white film. The camera used was a Pentax 6 x 7 with a 1-20m lens. After the shoot the film was developed and scanned for archival purposes. Then the images were physically manipulated. I would individually paint the B/W negatives with acrylic paint and later burn a selection of them. From there the now 'destroyed' negatives were scanned and digitally manipulated. The first and most important step of digital manipulation was to use an AI filter to turn the B/W image to a Color image. After this filter was applied, I could further edit the images to my liking. Finally, the images were printed on a printable fabric and stretched over a wood frame. This project has not only been one of self-discovery but also a journey of healing. Through my work I also got to learn about what it feels like to be other women and hear their stories. In learning these amazing women's stories, I learned what the definition of strength and perseverance is. This project has helped me stitch together what it means to be me. In doing this project I have found out what being an artist means to me. I have found my voice. I also know how I want to use my voice. I want to use my voice to make the unheard heard. To show the world the deeper levels of humanity.Item Open Access Hannah Butler: capstone(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2017) Butler, Hannah, artistThe artist's statement: Through the influences of the environmental portrait and exploration of self-portraiture, my work aims to highlight the significance of the more mundane aspects of life between my husband and I. Throughout this series of photographs, a narrative takes form, providing a unique view inside the details of one's personal life. By choosing color photography rather than black and white, the work endeavors to be more than a documentary account. The incorporation of natural and artificial light works to evoke a subtle emotional response of connection to the images. The moments the images capture are not uncommon to many relationships and yet they are exclusive within each one. The small features of daily life are often unremarkable and therefore overlooked, yet these small moments provide significance through a sense of knowing in the quietness, augmenting the relationship between loved ones in the day-to-day.Item Open Access Irie Sauceda-Lindsey: capstone(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Sauceda-Lindsey, Irie, artistThe artist's statement: This isn't really about porches, or porch decoration, or even the homes that I stop to admire as I casually stroll along the sidewalks of the neighborhood. What my photos are really about is the presence of human bodies and the individuality of said humans. Every house I've encountered is different. Of course, usually because of the change in design, paint color, era of each house. But what makes one house truly distinct from another is the people living in it. The porch is an extension of one’s home and personality, saying a lot more about the resident than you might think. My photos act as portraits of the individuals inside these homes, capturing each of their uniqueness through the lens of the house porch. My photography explores the hidden or unacknowledged allure in the many things we encounter throughout our days. Constantly searching for and taking note of anything that gives me a sense of pleasure is the most important part of my photo-making process. Becoming hyper aware of these small bits of life and recognizing their worth is what pushes me to grow and gain a passion for my artistry even more. I invite my viewers into my photos, to take a moment and appreciate the beauty in the simplest to the most complex of things.Item Open Access Jordan Bachus: capstone(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Bachus, Jordan, artistThe artist's statement: I was born and raised in the church and starting at a very young age girls are taught the idea of modesty and that our bodies are inappropriate. Growing up this idea was shoved into my brain and it was really hurtful. I saw my body as something that wasn’t beautiful and was almost a thing about myself to be ashamed of. Trying to cover myself up in order to show I truly followed what I was taught. As I grew up I learned more that my body was my own and that it was made in a beautiful way. However I choose to glorify my body is my own choice and not one to be told to me. I wanted to show this idea through this series. Showing the body as a beautiful thing, almost comparing it to forms of the earth, and photographing my body in abstracted ways. The body is almost a painting with small details and skin running and folding along the paper. I also wanted to show some of the fight in my own self, with the images of me grabbing showing that tension of this idea. The names of the images are pieces of verses throughout the Bible that talk about beauty in one way or another.Item Open Access Kelty Baynham: capstone(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Baynham, Kelty, artistThe artist's statement: There is something intriguing about capturing what is in front of you in a way that your eyes cannot; seeing a moment in time that is only being caught by a frame. Ever since I have owned a camera, I have been drawn to the moments around me, really the people in the moments around me. People have always been the inspiration that drives me to photograph. They are the subjects of my photos, it's never about me behind the camera, it's them. They are the beginning, middle and end of my photographs, and they make the image into the product. I am the one behind the camera that can translate who they are into something other people can see, or who they want others to see them as. In my view, people are the most intriguing and unique things in life, and there is not one like the other. This gives me room to get to know someone and explore through the photos I take of them and with that show them how they are seen in whatever capacity that might be. When I can capture someone in a moment or space that creates a story about who they are or what they want to communicate then I feel like I have played my role as a photographer. There is an importance of pointing a camera at someone and really letting the stillness show everything about that person through one image. The story might be beautiful, and it might be something that is not, but people are always worth understanding and my photographs aim to do so.Item Open Access Kendra Keely: capstone(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016) Keely, Kendra, artistThe artist's statement: Jerry Uelsmann once said while talking about the creative nature of his art, "My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas." My work is heavily influenced by this and created with the desire to express feelings and the psychological state of being. Creating images that defy reality open up the possibility to create a world more meaningful than the one we experience. I want my work to elicit and express the unseen emotions that can be experienced while everything else around us is covered by the smoke of reality.Item Open Access Maxwell Weber: capstone(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Weber, Maxwell, artistThe artist's statement: In my photographic practice, I primarily focus on the human-altered aspects of the western American landscape. Documenting the results, byproducts and repercussions of the United States manifesting its destiny across the west. I find the built environments to be reflective of the cultures that create them. I am also interested in the economic and political aspects of the environments and subjects that I photograph. Specifically I am focusing on a current trend in architecture which began with "five over one" apartment buildings. They are typically multifamily housing units with sleek and repetitious exteriors, and often leave the ground floor as commercial space. This trend is largely driven by economics as these buildings are very cost effective to construct. The buildings can be luxury, low-income, or student housing, but there is no way to tell which it is from the outside. I photograph these buildings with a 4x5 field camera using the wet plate collodion process. The wet plate collodion process, sometimes known as tintype, is a 19th century photographic process which predates the silver-gelatin process, the basis of modern film. In the modern version of this process, a glass or aluminum plate is coated with collodion, which becomes the substrate that holds the image. When the coated plate is submerged in a silver nitrate bath, it becomes sensitive to light and an image can be made on it. The plate is only sensitive to light while it is wet and therefore must be developed before it dries. I use this historic and slightly dangerous method of making photographs both because of the way the resulting images look and to be fully connected to the photographic process. While digital manipulations can evoke or mimic wet plate, nothing looks like a wet plate photograph. I am using the wet plate collodion process to contrast 21st century architectural trends with 19th century photographic technology. I find “five over one” buildings to be stylistically, spiritually and physically hollow. Conversely, I find wet plate collodion images to be stylistically, spiritually and physically rich. It is interesting looking at soulless buildings through the filter of a very soulful process. The bland repetition of the architectural forms are echoed and contrasted by the unique mark making of wet plate.Item Open Access Sarah Fish: capstone(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2017) Fish, Sarah, artistThe artist's statement: Depicting what can not be physically seen has always driven my work. How does one capture a state of mind, an emotion, an illness that can't be seen with the eye? I present three narratives experienced through the mind of one individual. Equipped with a Mamiya 7 and rolls of 120 fujichrome color film, I capture each step in their journey, translating them to chromogenic prints. With masters of the psyche at the forefront, such as Alfred Hitchcock, Duane Michaels, and Francesca Woodman, my hope is to transport you to an alternate state of mind, warping your reality into that of the unfamiliar. To put the viewer in the shoes of another is what I believe the purpose of my art is. To let the viewer experience that which is entirely new and uncharted territory for them, allows them to exercise the action of empathy. For those who relate to the work, and see it as a representation of scenarios they have encountered, it's a warm reminder, that they are not alone, and that they can share in the cathartic experience of seeing representation of things they believed could not be represented.