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Selected Works.

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Title: Veil

Date: November 29th 2012

Dimensions: 39.5 x 28 inches

Materials: White Ink on black paper 

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March 20th, 2013 Experiments in Hypnosis: Floor Drawing II  In November 2012, Alexandra Janelli from Theta Spring hypnotized me. The goal of the session was to enable me to make drawings while in the hypnotic state. I received a recording of the session that I could listen to, and the recording would put me in a hypnotic trance where I could make drawings. In this video, I listened to the recording and made a drawing on the floor of my studio. Then I proceeded to destroy the drawing by sweeping it up. All of the drawings I have done under hypnosis I have been alone, except this one. This drawing was filmed on 16mm by my friend, Rachael Williams and she is the only other human who saw the drawing in person. The recording that I listen to is twenty minutes long and the trance usually lasts for thirty minutes. The sound is my edited version of the recorded session. This short video begins and ends in black and white, while the middle is in color. It represents going into a hypnotic state and then falling out of that trance.

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Title: Infinity

Series: Visions in the Dark

Date: May 7th, 2013

Dimensions: 50 x 38 inches

Materials: R&F White Pigment oil Stick, white acrylic ink on black Suede wall paint on white paper. 

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Title: cloth Date: June 6th 2013 Dimensions: 25.75 x 19.75 inches.                                                      

Materials: white ink on black paper 

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Title: Great Expectations

Date: February 6th 2013

Dimensions: 50 x 38 inches

Materials: Loose Graphite on crystal gem wall paint on white paper

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Title: Rising

Date: May 29th, 2013

Dimensions: 27.5 x 53 inches

Materials: R&F Mars black oil stick, white ink, liquid graphite on crystal gem wall paint on wall paper from 1H doctor's office.

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Title: Celestial Map

Date: February 6th 2013- March 3rd 2013

Dimensions: 38 x 50 inches

Materials: Loose Graphite Powder, Black Ink, Graphite, on Mystic Harbor wall paint on white paper

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Title: second Veve

Series: Visions in the Dark

Date: June 12th 2013

Materials: Powdered Chalk and Flour on black Suede paint on floor of 1H doctor's office. 

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On June 12th, 2013 my hypnotist, Alexandra Janelli hypnotized me in my studio. I made two floor drawings under hypnosis. 

(Above image from the video recording of the session.) 

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On June 12th, 2013 my hypnotist Alexandra Janelli hypnotized me in my studio. I made two floor drawings under hypnosis.

(Above image from the video recording of the session, where I am under hypnosis making the first floor drawing.)

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On June 12th, 2013 my hypnotist Alexandra Janelli hypnotized me in my studio. I made two floor drawings under hypnosis.

(Above image from the video recording of the session, where I am under hypnosis making the first floor drawing.)

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Visions in the Dark 

Installation walk through

Visions in the Dark is an installation of drawings and video in my studio, an old doctor's office, which is soon to be renovated. The ephemeral space started as an inspiration and over time transformed into a drawing unto itself. I left many remnants from the previous occupant and in some cases emphasized them. I used the original wallpaper as the paper for some of the drawings and the drawings' background share the same color palette as that of the space. All of the drawings were made while being in a state of hypnosis. In November of 2012, Alexandra Janelli from Theta Spring hypnotized me. For every drawing I listened to the twenty-one minute recording of the session and proceded to draw. The hypnotic trance would last from thirty minutes to two hours.

  Many Thanks to: 

Jennifer George

Donald Ellis Gallery

Alexandra Janelli, Theta Spring Hypnosis

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Title: Inducing Hypnosis Dimensions: 4"x6" Materials: 35mm Film Photograph, In-Camera Double Exposure

Crystal Dyer