Rachel Knoshaug: capstone
Date
2014
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Knoshaug, Rachel, artist
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The artist's statement: When I was in the process of applying for college, I wrote about how I loved art for the way it can tell a story without words, allowing me to go beyond the boundaries of verbal communication and have a deep and lasting impact on those who view my art. I went more eloquently into the subject than what I really felt was true for me at the time, but now, after four years being in a university art program, I believe in and am passionate about my purpose as an artist more than ever. I make art because it lets me communicate in a way that words cannot. Art can make its point in seconds, getting to the heart in ways that would take hours to accomplish verbally. I believe my art can speak for itself, and I strive to give it a strong voice, give it depth and meaning that is comprehensible, while keeping it artistic and engaging without becoming ambiguous. I am inspired to make my art through a myriad of different visual elements that I have experienced and have evoked certain emotions in me and impacted me in some way in the past. I decide what elements to include by deciding first what emotion or story I want to bring across, then considering what imagery has relayed that information to me before and how to best connect that imagery with the message I want to my art to convey. Many of my works represent something I'm passionate about, something in which I've experienced a depth of emotion and wish to share with others. My personality is such that I feel things very deeply but tend to be awkward and uncomfortable expressing myself verbally, and so my art represents, for me, an instrument that I can use to explain things more significantly and succinctly than I could with words. I make it not only as a way of self-expression, driven by the spectrum of emotions in my past, but also out of a passion to help viewers consider and comprehend the same story and meaning.
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Colorado State University Art Department capstone project.
Capstone contains the artist's statement, a list of works, and images of works.
Capstone contains the artist's statement, a list of works, and images of works.