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Bryanna Millis

Bryanna Millis
Bryanna Millis
2-D Visual
Washington, DC
Home page:http://bryannamillis.com
Space:9 06

In my collages I tell stories, transform images and re-interpret symbols. Figurative representations often serve as vehicles through which to explore intangible subjects such as change, knowledge, loss, and the limits of the individual experience. I aim to reach a kind of balance between simplicity and complexity of meaning and aesthetic presentation.

I use a wide variety of materials and techniques including painting and drawing, sewing, photography, and digital manipulation. I rely heavily on transparent vellum to create a sense of depth in a 2-dimensional space and a sense of time on a static page.

In my recent work, made in the context of several trips to Palestine in 2008 and 2009, I have used sewing (in combination with photography and vellum) to develop phantom landscapes and to work with negative space in a new way. Sewing offers me the opportunity to create a line that is more delicate and two-dimensional than is possible through pencil, pen, or paint. Thread is also symbolic in this work, which explores the concept of bonds made and broken.

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