Explorations | Creative Work
Artist: Aleah Michelle Howell
Faculty Mentor: Beth Grabowski
Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dimensions: 9” x 14”
Medium: Cyanotype print
ARTIST STATEMENT: This piece is one in a series of prints and photographs called
“Walking.” On my walks, I notice beautiful, found compositions that are created through my awareness and the repetition of walking. Line and texture create composition. I focused on the abstract beauty of roads and the way nature and man-made materials can combine into one.
The walks started as being informed only by sight. With frottage techniques, I recorded the cracked pavement and other objects I passed with my hands. The blue of cyanotype printing can be abrasive, but I believe it only intensifies this sense of touch in my prints. Exploring age, decay, and memory, these prints represent a moment in time as well as the history of an object.
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Weathered, Aleah Michelle Howell, 2015
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