ARTiculAction Art Review 2015 Biennial Issue

Page 121

Skye Schirmer

ARTiculAction

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how successful I am in doing so, but I feel confident that through my personal narratives I am revealing a very intimate side of my own inner nature and what is expected of me as a woman and also an artist. Multidisciplinarity is so a crucial aspect of your approach and it's remarkable the way you are capable of creating such an effective symbiosis between elements from different techniques, manipulating language and recontextualizing images and concepts, as in the installation Untitled: while crossing the borders of different artistic fields have you ever happened to realize that a synergy between different disciplines is the only way

to achieve some results, to express some concepts?

The installation Untitled was my first successful attempt at breaching the lines between 2D and 3D and it opened up an entirely new way for me to contextualize my work. Creating that sculpture allowed me to view a piece of my imagery on a completely different scale in a new form and I believe that was the start of a greater understanding of composition and form in the creation of my prints. I found it satisfying to create something in a similar process-oriented manner but have the outcome be a construction from your hands on a different level. I have struggled with


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