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Rachel Garrison and Amanda Rooms are both painting concentrations at Colorado State University. Below are brief overviews of their works:

Rachel Garrison: I have always enjoyed our ability to use our imagination to create characters and worlds different from our own, which is what I employ in my paintings. By emphasizing imagination, spontaneity, and play in my work, I have found great understanding in who I am. My paintings take on forms of imaginative randomness, with each addition containing a glimpse of intentionality and feelings. They became reflections of my whole self, which is quite messy. Allowing myself to be free in my work has given me a window to see myself and how I operate. Art-making became an interaction with my outward self, my inner self, and my canvas, all tangled into one conversation.

Amanda Rooms: The pieces displayed follow my process of conceptualizing my generation’s experience with the unsolicited video. Unsolicited videos are videos you fall upon when scrolling. They depict imagery the viewer may not consent to consuming. I view unsolicited videos as portals that our innocence slowly and unsuspectingly falls through, taking a piece of us every time. Being curious is in our human nature. Looking away is not easy. Whether it was a friend showing a classmate porn, or landing upon a beheading, digital natives grew up surrounded by this imagery.

Viewing unsolicited videos inches us closer to desensitizing ourselves from the world around us. It’s an unavoidable experience for anyone born into the world of the internet.

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