NEW - Stella Egelja - Painting - RISD Senior Show 2020

I make plaster objects, printed with images from my personal archive, which act as surrogates for that which I fear losing, or that I wish to hold onto for Dear Life. My fascination with copying and recopying an image over and over questions the possibility of the death of the image: something I see as impossible. These images come from my fear of loss, and fear of death, of the image: sourced from an archive of photographs from poor image collections. While my image vetting process is often systematic, it more often originates from surface level attraction, that is, love at first sight. In choosing images this way, I can have love at as many sights as I want. And it is my hope, that the more sights at which an image is seen, the more love it will hold, and I will feel.

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Sheep Shearers

Screenprint on plaster, recast in Rockite
9" x 12"

Look Alikes 1-4

Screenprint on plaster
5" x 7"

Sweet Arch Over Cloud-Like Stream

Screenprint on plaster, shattered and reconstructed in plaster frame
24.5" x 30"

Cloud Gazer

Graphite on canvas, vinyl, acrylic, wood frame
26" x 32"

Cloud Gazers (Detail)

Graphite on canvas, glassine, plastic wrap
14" x 18"

Hive Modern, 2016 (Fragments)

Digital collage of screenprint on plaster
5" x 7"

Challenger, 1986; Hive Modern, 2016

Digital collage of screenprint on plaster
5" x 7"

This series is inspired by a found advertisement in a 2016 issue of Surface Magazine. This image bears striking resemblance to a photograph of the Challenger Disaster in NASA's digital archive. The diptych, or set of twin photographs, is an example of homonym images: images that look the same but hold completely separate meanings.

Challenger, 1986

Screenprint on plaster, recast in Rockite
9" x 12"

(1 of 2) This series is inspired by a found advertisement in a 2016 issue of Surface Magazine. This image bears striking resemblance to a photograph of the Challenger Disaster in NASA's digital archive. The diptych, or set of twin photographs, is an example of homonym images: images that look the same but hold completely separate meanings.

Hive Modern, 2016

Screenprint on plaster, recast in Rockite
9" x 12"

(2 of 2) This series is inspired by a found advertisement in a 2016 issue of Surface Magazine. This image bears striking resemblance to a photograph of the Challenger Disaster in NASA's digital archive. The diptych, or set of twin photographs, is an example of homonym images: images that look the same but hold completely separate meanings.

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