Inspired by the frameworks of storytelling, my artwork explores themes of interactivity, transformation, and documentation. Foundational to my creative practice, environmental awareness and sustainable materials are constant advocations throughout my work. Using video and installation I conceptualize social and environmental issues through juxtaposition, satire, and empathy in an effort to affect change. My practice in collage documents the human experience in relationship to one another, our surrounding environments, and ourselves. It also offers critique of the transformation between ‘then and now’ and aesthetically challenges time through fragmentation. These works are a form of storyboarding that explores key concepts of evolution, liberation, and struggle in the balance of social constructs and a more natural world. I consider myself to be constantly alluding to portraiture. Regardless of the subject matter or themes explored, portraiture is a way to document, or acts as a snapshot; to summarize character or present an identity of sorts. In this way concepts, themes, people, and place all become a story summarized/personified through portrait. This is the window to my work. While I notice a strong pull towards cinematic presentation, a singular focal point is often muted so that varying parts may make a whole, allowing for the viewer to build their own story and meaning within the content of the work.

 

This is the stuff that keeps me stoked.

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Currently living in Vancouver B.C.

 

 

May you enjoy, may you be enjoying, and may you feel joy.

 

-Alyson Dawn