

- in memory of eric rohmer -
(you would never believe where this song is from or else i would tell you)
scrap from 2006, now complete.
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what face /
8 x 10 inches /
mixed media on panel /
2009
jeremy ashlyn on etsy
rachel collier: 2006-2009 a brief history of painting *part two*

skyrocket
Acrylic and pastel on panel and paper,
38″ x 46″ 2007

fish
Acrylic, pastel, and spray-paint on paper,
panel, and canvas 74″ x 50″ 2007

we depend on one another
Acrylic, spray-paint, artist tape on panel and canvas
84″ x 54″ 2007

cloud baby
acrylic, pastel on newsprint and panel
36″ x 24″ 2007

sky window
acrylic, spray-paint, artist tape on newsprint and canvas
30″ x 36″ 2007
charlotte et veronique (all the boys are called patrick)
jean luc godard’s first film (21 min.) made at the age of 27.
written by eric rohmer.
this movie made me want to make new wave comics.

relevant link: first ponytails comic
sky captain



sky captain
garage projections
lost



lost
garage projections
noise
-this is a podcast #1
by rachel, kelly and jeremy
some boring words at start of it
-screamo
screamo
garage projections
i like when girls do screamo. that is why i originally liked glass candy and the shattered theatre. there is something innate and primal about screaming, like yorda from ico. it is outside of communication. words are lost.

“as clear as an unmuddied lake”
the purity of screaming can be misplaced amid the male and female bullshit of everyday life. the style or whatever you want to call it has been co-opted by males and turned aggressive. it is gutteral, literally. screaming. everyone has a gut.

notice the ‘fruits basket’ anime poster in the above image. the screaming shatters an otherwise banal existence. nothing can stand in its way. i wanted to put that energy right in the middle of the gallery.
words
-banal
super banal boring everyday stupid shit
garage projections
partially a response/documentation of my senior fine arts show, super banal (for short) is full of self-referential naval gazing and other stupid stuff as well as other stuff i would use later use in other stuff.
‘g.i.s.m.’ at the beginning in a gallery, 3d effects from lo fi sci fi, rachel from laser monster (ha), forest from ‘forest’, errata from the projection i used in the senior fine arts show, and of course footage from the show itself.
the sound was made using electroplankton.
the past couple weeks i’ve been filming projections of my videos in the garage. that is what i call my studio. ‘the garage’. it sounds french, right?

i went out to the garage and played the videos back and filmed them.

originally, and this was in 2008, i thought super banal (for short) should be two videos on two monitors, but time and circumstance did not allow and i was unable to show it the correct way. (here is the compromised version.)
to further complicate things i actually chose to show it two different ways this time. the first one is a tight crop of the video on my computer screen with garbled natural sound from the monitor. the second version is wide showing the two videos side by side for the first time, with a bottle of pain pills. you might need those.

the key word is ‘iteration’.
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