But the clothing, and the stories she could tell about each and every garment, tore you from the scene and sent your mind elsewhere. She’d sewn them all together, and it was awful to look at them.
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Arkansas Sketchbook: Kevin Arnold
It’s interesting to consider the parallel with the viewer’s experience. Because much in the same way that it takes time to parse the elements on the canvas and discern the narrative that carries the work forward, the work’s production required patience and a long gestation to find its way onto the canvas, or, as Kevin Arnold puts it, a long time in the pot
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[maxgallery name=”may-sketchbook”] Chrystal Seawood | 2012 | Acrylic and enamel on wood “I was going to give myself maybe like five or six months before I moved out [to Brooklyn] permanently,” Chrystal Seawood says. After mustering the gumption to give up her graphic-design job in Bentonville, she’d come home to Forrest City to develop her…
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There was a shift and a rebirth, that much can be said. It’s not that what’s there now wasn’t there before. It was. It was in the murals that made her a household name in Fayetteville (namely those on the white fence along the Razorback Greenway). It was in the T-shirts she designed with bears…
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