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Returning Home

Sarah Nicole Phillips

Collage made with discarded security envelopes

18"x15"
0.50 lbs

Price


$700.00
Returning Home
Returning Home Small Room
A grove of trees reveal that they are not native to planet earth, and their time on earth is temporary. Under the cover of darkness, they summon their mother-ship for transport. Their decision to leave is ambiguous. Are they itinerant workers, moving on when their work is done? Are they tourists, returning home to recount tales of their adventures to loves ones? Are they nomads, weary from their travels?
Sarah Nicole Phillips

Sarah Nicole Phillips. Brooklyn, NY

Artist Statement

I create collages with discarded, patterned, security envelopes. Security envelopes obscure their contents. It is impossible to read what is inside, even when they are held up to light. Offset and imprecise patterns create a scrim, which serves as a decorative backdrop to our bureaucratic tangles. I often create images dense with flora, that echo the envelope’s intended use as camouflage to hide private documents.

Best advice you’ve been given • If you don't achieve the effect you are going for, keep doing it until you get it right, no matter how many times it takes.

Goals/Aspirations • To create work that is accessible and exciting to a wide audience.

Favorite artist • I am a big fan of Natalie Jeremijenko's work because it is interdisciplinary. She uses technology to create work that blurs boundaries between art, science & activism.

What are you reading • Digging through back-issues of the New Yorker.

Hope to learn how to • Operate a construction crane.

You spend a lot of time thinking about • Where all our trash goes, spicy cocktail recipes, get-rich-quick schemes, dumb inventions, sci-fi economies.

Favorite musical artist • Philip Glass, Delicate Steve, Lady Gaga.

What do you do when not creating art • Riding my bicycle around the neighborhood, weeding my rooftop garden, teaching printmaking, hustling, Netflix binging.

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