Might we engage in some colloquy?
It's necessary to break the fourth wall. I enjoy being fervently honest. In my art, anyway. Hehe.

I love talking. "Discourse" (facetiously named) is the conversation that, if you listen, is always occurring. My friends say that conversation is a favorable past time of mine because it is my favorite tool for exploring the big world. Perhaps they're on to me.

I spent the last few weeks of summer making these pieces, building a connection with them. About 11 hours were spent both alone / with friends hanging the works.

I make these in strange places at strange times and whenever feels right, and sometimes when it feels really wrong. There's around 50+ pieces total included in the final collection, I'm still uploading them all here, just slowly.

THANK YOU to everyone who helped me open the conversation. I'm so grateful I have the opportunity to express myself and have people look at it, think about it, and maybe even take it home in their brain for later.

Discourse features two installments, one still currently at the Starkville Area Arts Council until November 4th (the first at the Proof location) and one that has been concluded in the Union Gallery at Mississippi State University. 

These are an evolved departure from my previous work. I'm inspired still by my time last year at the MARS residency in Sessums, MS. I experimented a lot there with honesty on paper. There's a bit of scientific illustration I'm working on with Tristan + others included @ MSU's installment.

Thank you for celebrating this little piece of the much larger, more existential, palaver pie with me.

Very grateful to have my boss and dear friend, Tristan, for having provided euphony during the respective receptions (live music of his original composition). I had an interesting time, as per usual, exercising my creativity live. (Live painting.)

See below for photos of the receptions and the works themselves.

Danke,

-Zoé