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MOLLY RIELIGH

I was not able to make it to the Gorilla Girls lecture so I went to see Molly Rieligh during the Critorama event. I was vey excited to hear her talk because I had heard that she did photo collages.

Molly's work was so interesting. She was working with images that she put together to make a sequence. She found her images at flee markets and on ebay. She then took those images and arranged them in such a way that she was telling a story. In her earlier days she would find the cheapest method to paste her images on a surface but later her work evolved. She put the images in or on different boxes and papers so that they would contribute to teh meaning. She said that she would be able to know the story but the viewer might not get it exactally. She wanted to leave ideas open so the viwer can come up with their own thoughts. I really like her mentality when it comes to her meanings. I like that she doesn't have a set meaning that must come across but instead she wants there to be many meanings.

Her work was so relevant to the work that we have been doing in CPS. Her main works were all image-image compolations. She took random images and put them together to create meaning from them, just like we had to do. Then, when she displayed her works she made a collection with images by having cut outs of chairs and a suitcase pasted on the wall along with her arrangement of photos. She wanted to have multiple meanings in her work just like we are shooting for. We don't want our projects to be looked at, inspire one specific meaning, and then turn the viewer away. We want the viewer to look at it and sit an think about what they see or even all of the other possablilities that could come from the work.

Watching her presentation filled me with so many ideas for my own image collection. To see a real artist using the idea of arranging random images to create art was very inspiring.

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