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(3.51 - 96 votes)Carol on her work:
Growing up in the sweatshops of the Los Angeles apparel industry with my dysfunctional family has become the thread that flows through the story in my work. Elements dreams, childhood memory, and the materials from the garment manufacturing trade creep into my artwork as a type of redemption, and I see my work as an argument for reality.
My ideas and concepts are like a sarcastic documentation stemming from emotions rather than analytical schemes. My process is mostly instinctual and I risk being bare and vulnerable in my work, incorporating narratives as bits of paradoxical truths that reveal the psychological angst and trepidation I wrestle with. For me, art becomes a methodical, visionary activity in which to distract myself from all the bullshit I’ve had to encounter, and a saving grace I use to reconstruct what wasn’t.
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These works are interesting and visual in that they hold your attention as your eye looks through each piece.
Comment by Casey Shannon — September 27, 2009
beautiful work carol! these two pieces really incorporate so many elements of your past works so well. i envy the thread with which you sew all our pieces together for a very signature feel and a high recognition factor. very, very nice indeed!
Comment by elaine — September 27, 2009
Good job man. Keep dreaming!
Comment by Daniel — September 27, 2009
Wow, Carol Es – AMAZING!!! I admire your honesty and your great work. Thank you for sharing with us. Keep creating!
Comment by Annie aka Snowyowl — September 27, 2009
I love the colors that are used on the first piece’s its so radiant:), I love it both pieces are interesting
Comment by kiara — September 27, 2009
Nice work, Carole.
Comment by Ruth — September 27, 2009
Cat scan brain slices, electro shock apparatus and assorted sado masochistic paraphenalia; operating tables with straps, bound torso’s, distorted cartoon children. What a painful way to experience childhood; but a universal cry of anguish. Kudo’s to the artist.
Comment by Jim Gibbons — September 27, 2009
Where can I see more of this person’s art? Quite love how brave and direct her work seems to be. Using where she comes from in her art suggests to me that this person is in some very important sense a self-found soul and therefore worthy of praise. I get this work and like it. Every success to you Carol Es!
Comment by Patrick O'Neil — September 27, 2009
I like it.
Comment by Daniel — September 27, 2009
I really like your work. :)
Comment by ArtEmis — September 27, 2009