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RYAN RATTLIFF

MULTI-MEDIA ARTIST AND WRITER 

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Artist Statment

My artwork is a confrontation between the domestic and wild. It’s about origins, strange and familial. It’s about my own girlhood and the crafting of my internal landscape through dreams and solo-play. My painted pieces, depict feminine figures against surreal backdrops in acts of discovery and/or surrender to the natural elements elements.

 

In my collages, I use natural environments to transport to place the viewer. This disorientation is meant to evoke a yearning for a place that easily escapes us. A departing memory that could have also been a dream. There is often a trickster element in my work that amplifies the uncertainty. Tricksters dwell at thresholds and ask something in exchange for access. 

 

 The symbols in my work serve as a common tongue between the unseen world and I. We are still swapping intelligence. Thank you for witnessing.

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Feminine Reverence 

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