Rebecca Miller Portfolio

Artist's Statement

This body of work is of research that I have been thematically pursuing for the past decade. My concerns with this work deal with abuse and control; from casual annihilation of life, the effects that encroachments and the destruction of the environment have on wildlife, to the treatment of humans by one another. The principal interest for me with my work is to gain an emotional response from the viewer. I would like to use my art as a tool to communicate the injustices that I have witnessed and to make viewers conscious of these indignities which have become numb commonalities in our society.

The combination of photography and other media has always intrigued me. I have found it to be a challenge to successfully combine photography with direct media, such as painting and drawing, concluding with a cohesive product. It has been this challenge that leads to the work being presented, which is a combination of photography, etching, painting, and drawing. Visual layering is an important step in this process and in turn is a reflection of the various messages and intentions of the work. I enjoy the actual and visual textures and layers that result from combining different media. In this manner there is a metamorphosis within each piece that represents the multiplicity of the content of the image.

- Rebecca Miller

Minor Casualties
 mixed media on gelatin silver print 		Deadly sins: Murderer
mixed media on gelatin silver print
Life and Death
photogram 		Coyote
mixed media on gelatin silver print
Forgiveness
mixed media on gelatin silver print 		Crow Medicine
mixed media on gelatin silver print
Sacrifice
photogram 		Thinking of You
mixed media on gelatin silver print
Free Fall
photogram 		Snake Dreams
mixed media on gelatin silver print

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