Caleb G.

When I was in high school I would collect plastic, mostly trash, to create sculptures that inevitably my mom would recycle because she didn't know what they were or what they were for. I bring this up because I made them with the environment and pollution mainly how much pollution/littering I saw in the city of Chicago in mind. Rebecca Carlton's work reminds me of that era of my work with her focus on looking into the environment but portraying that with ceramics and sculptures. I especially find the birds piece very interesting with the number of the birds holding significance. I also find that the pieces are very approachable and interesting. I am interested to see if she will make a piece focusing on the alarming record-breaking temperatures and the impact that will have on the environment. Also seeing more humanity in the pieces considering humanity causes the issues the birds or other animals are going through. I also would love to take a trip to Door County and see her st

    This installation is the combination of 2 projects I had been thinking about doing for a while. The first is an exploration of emotion, especially in how we mask them. The other was an exploration of the body and its form. So, for these cyanotype prints on muslin, I made body prints of my body and a couple of my friends. Then I did a second print on where the face would be with a mask of emotion. I also liked the idea of just hanging these up like they are drying on a wire. I also played with how I arranged my limbs on the prints which some came out successful and others did not. I found it interesting to look at a print that I made with my body but not necessarily see a body right away having to sit for a time to figure out what is going on. Overall, the questions I thought about a lot while doing this were what do you see and How do you feel? These are things I suggest thinking about while looking at the piece. The prints definitely came out differently than how I was expecting b