Rachel Hayden is an artist primarily based in Brooklyn, New York. Her quirky, playful work are populated by motifs drawn from the margins of her center college notebooks. Butterflies, rainbows, taking pictures stars, caricature self-portraits, fruits, and flowers with human faces seem repeatedly like a solid of recurring characters positioned in numerous settings and conditions. Intuitive in nature, whereas concurrently prioritizing group and visible stability, Hayden likens her technique of inserting objects to arranging souvenirs on a shelf.
“On this physique of labor, bugs, fruits, and flower-figures grapple with sure hard-to-describe human emotions, referring to consolation, nervousness, love and grief,” she says. “Ambiguous feelings are manifested in shiny eyes and half-smiles. . . This work is impressed by large, heavy emotions and their mysterious origins—the sudden pangs of tension that strike in childhood, in addition to the moments of abundance and bliss. In the end in these work I search to search out order in chaos, pleasure in mess, and humor in tragedy.”
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