eva middleton's art blog

These collection of zines (see ' Boundless ' post) serve as an additional "artist's statement" for my thesis. Needs a better cover photo.  This first zine explores a question of a stage in creativity that I think is related to everyone.  Based off of times where I have been in such a mental state that I think everything I make is bad, even though I never finish it. I experimented with poetry and wording with the typewriter that I hope to explore in the next zines that I make. The idea behind these is that the message is more prominent through the typography rather than the quality that it is made of.   I have done a couple zines during my time at Peddie, and I always have felt they have translated my artistry well. For the specific zine I made for thesis 4, “why can’t i make good art?” ending with the statement “because it needs to be a little bad” felt like a question I really needed to ask myself at that moment. I had a different plan in mind for the zine initia...

Thesis: Drag in Weird Places / Tiny Mythologies  various cameras, friends, a couple rounds of raiding my sister’s closet, fear  Clothes mis-matched, makeup deliberately smudged, hair gelled to my scalp weird, Walter is both a character and a chance for me, Eva, to be weird without consequences.  Walter is a vessel I get to pour the ridiculousness in me into, without a sieve to catch all the extra fallen pieces. These series of photos and videos span across months of both very strategic and planned shoots on weekends to random school nights where I threw on red lipstick after getting home at 11PM from Honors Theatre performances and sat in my bathtub willing my mighty iPhone to have more storage.  Series shot on Polaroid Oneshot with SX70 film, digital, disposable, and film camera, and iPhone  ...or weird drag in normal places? Walter in Weird Places?  This project is intended to show my alter-ego, Walter, existing in worlds miserably, but stoic as he naviga...