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Emily
Wall |
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Tell Me What You See Project |
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Email:
em@emily-wall.com |
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Tell Me What You See was a collaborative project between
three artists. Emily Wall and Alexis
Easley are poets and Elise Tomlinson is a visual artist. Elise Tomlinson began
the project by creating rich, evocative oil paintings of women. Then poets Emily Wall and Alexis Easley
wrote poems responding to the paintings.
As the project evolved, the two poets began writing poems based on
each others’ work, and Elise began painting based on the images in the poems. The oil paintings and
poems of this project asked questions about the way women form their
identities and how this is shaped by the way we are perceived. This project was
originally shown at the Juneau Douglas City Museum in the winter of
1999. The paintings and poems were
collected into a show and opened to the public; the collaborators invited
comments from the community members on the work and on the issue of imaging
women. The above link will lead
you to an online gallery created by Elise Tomlinson showcasing the work. |
