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The Art Handler is a transcendence of disciplines. Boundaries are blurred in a Museum where realities support the rich and hurt the working class. In a practice that is part fancy and part social commentary, The Art Handler work spans across a spectrum of creative mediums exploring how identity is informed by power and art. The Art Handler seeks to empower and give voice to the powerless and combat systems of oppression, focusing on the joy and pain in an art museum. The Art Handler is a presentation documenting an investigation into museum vivaciousness. Artist drawing books are an exploration of the intimacy between the art handler and the art at the museum. The books develop into the conversation supporting the integration of self-compassion and resilience informing and entwining with a documentary about a Musuem that is controled. The culmination of the art handler moves between fun and fear, hardships and vision, by imagining new ways of being one with the museum. The Art Handler embraces the flaws and imperfections of the museum treating it with care to yield something stronger and more beautiful than what existed before. The National Labor Relations Board assisted the artist to exposes harsh experiences revealing an opportunity for transformation. The Art Handler emerges into the possibility to develop a differing experience. The Art Handler guides our attention to exposure beauty through vulnerability an experience the Museum doen't what shown. The drawings on gold leaf paper, emblematic as a throwaway paper spaced between leaves of gold to be applied to shiny frames hanging on the museum walls, suggests that however powerful the museum may be, that power is not with out fragility, vulnerability, and markings. |
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