eva middleton's art blog

 Thesis 2: Honors Studio  February 17, 2025 (Progress Update: March 19, 2025 & May 20, 2025)  cheesecloth, wool, acrylic paint, spray paint, beads, dye, wire, yarn, glue, stamps, clay, wire mesh  My biggest weakness is negligence in taking care of myself. The smaller figures born from mouths, embrace each other in an infinite circle, gaping at each other, as to ask themselves how they even got into this situation in the first place. This piece explores a phrase recurring in my brain that I saw in Greer Lankton's MoMA installation: "I swear to become my body (1977)." Because my thesis explores all the ways and the ways I limit myself when I could be expressive, this piece is meant to be a vessel for the mind through the entwining bodies, becoming unbound by inhibiting yourself, looking for a way out in other people even though the only solution is to grab hold of your own person first. My brain is a bus station and I limit myself to what I think I can do.  In...

 Thesis 1  February 5, 2025 (Updated May 20, 2025)  I transformed this piece and my Childhood memory piece to be one for my studio art show.  This time, the shopping cart sits cocooned in on itself, and I return to this piece from the fall with a little bit more urgency–the environment I am hiding from decides itself, but the shopping cart is my little bit of safety in an art show that has been both my worst fear and exhilarating to put on.  Borrowing from my Thesis 2, this rendition of the Harp Lesson remains true to its meaning from Winter term. In the shopping cart, I felt safe. On my grandmother’s couch eating blueberries waiting for my sister Clara to be done with her lesson, I also felt safe. Walter drives the addition to this piece, hunched over a typewriter, and writes diary entries on pieces of paper which he then adds as decoration to his shelter. Getting to dress up and take pictures is one accomplishment, but the protection of the shopping cart makes...