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Patricia Claus | “Backgrounds”

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A silhouette with a woman filling the background.

Patricia Claus, "Backgrounds," Spring 2021, markers and pens on drawing paper, 17 x 11"

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This drawing explores creative uses of negative space.

Figured asleep on the floor amidst the carnage of a pillow fight.

Patricia Claus | “Pillow Fight Aftermath”

The video begins with a panning shot of a 2-D drawing of a woman, she is looking down with a tear in hear eye, there is writing above her, superimposed atop a rainbow, which is the only color in the drawing, the handwriting says "A new story never told before written in letters of DNA, made from nothing but milk and love", the word love is in a comic book speech bubble from the woman, as the camera pans down we see that she has a bare chest and milk is streaming from her nipples and down her empty belly, which she is clutching the sagging skin from, video fades to black, same image is shown again, this time zoomed out, and the words and rainbow are animated, video fades to black, image of just the woman reappears, zoomed in, the sketch has been cleaned up and the drawing is cleaner, the beginning of the milk animation starts, and it streams down her breasts onto her belly, video fades to black, now it's a zoomed out shot of the artist working on the animation on an ipad, the animation runs a few times, and then the artist adjusts the frame rate and the animation slows down, video fades to black, the final cleaned up, zoomed out animation is now shown, the text appears as the milk flows, video fades out to a final slow zoomed in panning shot of the final still that fades out with the music.

Nikki Edwards | “Milk and Love”