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“We may be a little unconventional. But that’s just because we have a diversity of ages, personalities, minds, and interests, that make up this kooky mosaic of a family.”

Made my parents an pants-leg book or myself and my sibling for Christmas.

#Christmas #drawing #book arts

“Don’t cry, you’ll scare them away”- by Emma Rust, Crisco grease, chalk, charcoal, India ink, oil paint, cloth

This work depicts the struggle between needing emotional authenticity, while also fearing the stigma behind confirming feminine tropes of “craziness” and “hysteria”. I juxtapose the obligation to appear composed, poised, and graceful, with representations of anxiety and depression that often manifest as a result of this unhealthy emotional performance.

#feminism #art #emotions #body imprint #printmaking #painting #drawing

Body print process- Crisco grease, charcoal, chalk

#printmaking #art #body print #charcoal

“They’ll tell you it didn’t happen” -Emma Rust

Body imprint, graphite powder, Crisco kitchen grease

This series simultaneously explores the experience of navigating the stages of trauma itself while also feeling the dehumanizing effects of being silenced. This piece created as a rebuttal to my Title IX experience. My school essentially pressured me to go through the system, only to make me feel hysteric the entire process rather than validate my healing process. Here I capture the apologetic expression of pain and fear that the process always stigmatized me for.

#sexual violence #feminism #trauma #body print #printmaking

Reclaiming of the id- by Emma Rust, Crisco grease and chalk body imprint, oil paints

#painting #art #printmaking #body print #psychology

The cover reads “I’m fine, I promise.” The inside essentially admits that maybe I’m not quite fine…

#book arts #lithograph #charcoal #screen print

“Ungrievable body” -by Emma Rust, text of Adrienne Rich Wire, paper, flour, acrylic paint, wood glue, coffee, laser print text

#art #feminism #adrienne rich #sculpture #laser print

“They’ll tell you it didn’t happen” -Emma Rust

Body imprint, graphite powder, Crisco kitchen grease

This series simultaneously explores the experience of navigating the stages of trauma itself while also feeling the dehumanizing effects of being silenced. This piece created as a rebuttal to my Title IX experience. My school essentially pressured me to go through the system, only to make me feel hysteric the entire process rather than validate my healing process. Here I capture the apologetic expression of pain and fear that the process always stigmatized me for.

#trauma #art #printmaking #sexual assault #feminism

Morning Ritual- by Emma Rust

Intaglio print, coffee lift and etching on hard ground

Trying to find new ways to subvert the idea that female bodies are for the male gaze and also exploring the concept of messy and imperfect femininity.

#printmaking #feminism #intaglio #self portrait #toilet