2022 Grad Show

Grace Guenard

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Guenard, Grace. “Pussy Face”. March 2021
I was raise in a small town that was not diverse and lived a very sheltered life. Comics and action movie’s were my escape. Compelled to the outrageous plots and complex colour palettes. Soon I found myself wanting the world to be drenched in colour and creativity. I found myself drawn to the use of comics as a form of media all throughout my university career, but it was not till third and fourth year that I got serious. Though I do enjoy many ways of creating art, comics hold my foundation.

Mint-Condition Comic pages blended with water to make paper pulp that was strained through wooden frames fitted with window screens to form multiple pages of paper. Small fragment of the original comic still visible throughout the newly amalagamated grey paper. Presented in a sealed sleeve, designed to protect comics from dust and/or water damage. But the dame has already been done, and it’s disfigured form is sealed away and protected.
Tool Grey, tools lumpy in nature. Formed by blending the handmade pages made previously with water and moulding them with my hands into lumpy stick shapes. The act of blending the already blended pages that were sealed away transformed into these new forms, the second reincarnation of the original comics. Laid out on black cutting pad in an organized fashion, reinforcing the potential to use these tools and give them purpose.
By Hand The Tools presented previously were given purpose by sketching rough images of my own hands repeatedly on mixed media paper in various ink colours. Presented alongside the tools that created them only they take on this new appearance of various inks staining lumps. Hands being representative of what made the tools and echos the creator’s body onto the works own growing bodily form.
In Hand The rough ink sketch’s were blended and then modded into the shape and scale of my own hands. Then glued to help the hands hold their shape, and not loose any fingers. These hands were then documented holding the original tools used to sketch on the paper they were created from. Holding what came before them and aided in their creation.
Self Destruct The third hand was formed in the same way as the previous two, only this time I refrained from using glue to hold the hand together. The fingers self-destructed and fell from the palm of the hand. It’s fallen fingers taking the appearance of the Tools that were used to make the original hand sketches. Documented next to the skill ink covered Tools, some in places of where the the fingers would be.
Memento The remains of its bodily form burned away to ash then collected and integrated into a glass ring I form in the hot shop. It is carried on my finger the same finger that aided in its exterminations and reincarnations. A memento of its existence and personal relationship to me as its artist. https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=0g-afbv58y8

No Fingers

My work with comics in the previous years has been installation or collages; this was my first experience working with a consistently evolving body of work. The project recycles the same materials with each phase, thus consuming it’s prior self. Conceptually the work has taken on a life of its own and I, the artist, have been feeding off its information and learning from it. This process taught me skills in adapting and listening to what the art naturally wants to become. The artwork has taken on a personified, bodily form in the shape of my own hands.

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Mint-Condition Comic pages blended with water to make paper pulp that was strained through wooden frames fitted with window screens to form multiple pages of paper. Small fragment of the original comic still visible throughout the newly amalagamated grey paper. Presented in a sealed sleeve, designed to protect comics from dust and/or water damage. But the dame has already been done, and it’s disfigured form is sealed away and protected.
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Tool Grey, tools lumpy in nature. Formed by blending the handmade pages made previously with water and moulding them with my hands into lumpy stick shapes. The act of blending the already blended pages that were sealed away transformed into these new forms, the second reincarnation of the original comics. Laid out on black cutting pad in an organized fashion, reinforcing the potential to use these tools and give them purpose.
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By Hand The Tools presented previously were given purpose by sketching rough images of my own hands repeatedly on mixed media paper in various ink colours. Presented alongside the tools that created them only they take on this new appearance of various inks staining lumps. Hands being representative of what made the tools and echos the creator’s body onto the works own growing bodily form.
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In Hand The rough ink sketch’s were blended and then modded into the shape and scale of my own hands. Then glued to help the hands hold their shape, and not loose any fingers. These hands were then documented holding the original tools used to sketch on the paper they were created from. Holding what came before them and aided in their creation.
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Self Destruct The third hand was formed in the same way as the previous two, only this time I refrained from using glue to hold the hand together. The fingers self-destructed and fell from the palm of the hand. It’s fallen fingers taking the appearance of the Tools that were used to make the original hand sketches. Documented next to the skill ink covered Tools, some in places of where the the fingers would be.
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Memento The remains of its bodily form burned away to ash then collected and integrated into a glass ring I form in the hot shop. It is carried on my finger the same finger that aided in its exterminations and reincarnations. A memento of its existence and personal relationship to me as its artist. https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=0g-afbv58y8

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