The Artwork of Alice Stone-Collins

Artist Statement:

Blank spaces, luminous borders, vacant buildings, and crowded structures have always fascinated me. Sometimes these are mythic places. Sometimes they are closer to home. Throughout my career as an artist, I use snapshots of my life which explore various borders—home and leaving, loss and change, family and freedom. I explore these images to emphasize both the commonness and uniqueness of these borders. Asking questions of tradition and resistance to the ties that bind, my work questions if beauty can come from the mundane, the everyday, the apparent dead? It is often stale spaces that can be brought to life by exploring their contrasting energies of stasis and comfort, whispers, and ghosts. They ask us to question the way we engage with our environment and what we are leaving behind.