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(4.01 - 108 votes)Evelyn on her work:
I have always been drawn to the vastness and unpredictability of the sea and the objects it carries. A lost sneaker floating out at sea, a sun bleached plastic bottle resting on a rocky shoreline, an overturned satellite dish amongst a pile of rubble, or a pallet submerged deep below the ocean’s surface, each suggest leftovers from past events that have made them castaways in foreign landscapes. I am interested in stories of relocation and transformation that are embedded within these objects.
The root of my work is in exploring the details, the core elements that make something up, and which contain endless information about its past. Working from both observation and imagination, my drawings are based on possibilities of new environments and ideas of how future landscapes will evolve. Created from fragments of multiple places that I reorganize into new landscapes, they often exist as unexplored or forgotten islands drifting out at sea. These islands are comprised of disparate objects that have been lost, discarded, or defeated by momentous change. Underlying all of these landscapes is the inevitability, threat, and potential of change.
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Interesting concept and work.
Comment by Casey Shannon — March 19, 2010
Who says a color scheme has to be bold to be a color scheme? I love the washed out colors, they add to the eerieness. I have never seen an ocean, so this drawing intrigues me.
Comment by harmony — March 19, 2010
Puzzling, the lower pic is just a blow up of the upper – they’re the same pic! Look closely at all the junk, there’s a lopped off smiling human head!
Don’t you love some of the comments; “color scheme simply stunning” – there is no color scheme! “I can hear the waves – where are they, first got to see them. “I’d love to hang these pics” Yeh, decapitated human head and junk! Go for it. “Love the futuristic truth….greatest faults of society” boy, is that a stretch.What are you talking about? Certainly not the pics?
Comment by Jim Gibbons — March 19, 2010
wow, i absolutely love this! i share the same love for the ocean and it’s outcast inhabitants. thanks so much for creating this, it’s amazing!
Comment by Bah — March 19, 2010
These paintings really Wow me. Love the soft colors, the suspended look and unusual components used in these paintings.
I would love to have one of those hanging in my home. So unique. Best artist from my perspective so far!
Comment by Darlene — March 19, 2010
I love looking at this picture, every time I see it I wonder how every thing got there and what the story is for every piece of trash that ended up there
Comment by keilah — March 19, 2010
I can hear the waves and would have liked to see a little water in the picture but the idea is great and reminds me of time and the idea that time is relative and everything must change and sometimes should change.
Comment by Melissa Offutt — March 19, 2010
this is amazing. i love the futuristic look of the truth of today’s life. it brings out the greatest faults of the present society.
Comment by lalala — March 19, 2010
eerie and very beautiful.
Comment by Anan — March 19, 2010
The detail and color scheme in these are simply stunning.
Comment by notquitesane — March 19, 2010