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i have a new series in the works at the moment. i've started putting up images as they become finished for the most part. this will probably be the series that i take with me to graduate schools... it's called 'UnCommon Women (and other lies we tell ourselves)'... atleast its called that for now... i'm not sure how the administration will take to it...

The "I will not" series will be opening on February 5th at 3pm on the second floor of the Hollins Visual Arts Center. Please feel free to come.....there will be cheese:) Here's the artist Statement for this work... "I Will Not" series I firmly believe that one of the many duties of artists is to illuminate that which is often invisible. Today's culture of split second change, everyone is going a million miles a minute trying to keep-up. It isn't until we slow down that we see the beauty, the injustice, the oddity that is life and human nature. We all as human beings are not perfect. We have aspects to our selves we don't enjoy or apprecia

Here's my basic idea as presented to Prof Sulkin: To start with, this series is going to be an expansion on my "Blackboard" series done during the final weeks of my digital class last spring. The basic idea is thus. We all as human beings are not perfect. We have aspects to our selves we don't enjoy or appreciate…whether we like it or not. We're told by adults growing up, friends, family and especially the media we need to look a certain way, act a certain way and be a certain kind of person. From a young age we are taught to put on this mask of who we are expected to be and that we need to maintain that mask. If we let our true self sh