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Pat Frades: I. Self Medicate: Breathe In
Scent has always been like breadcrumbs of memories, where a single breath paints us a scene of emotions and allows us to relive an experience. Visual artist Pat Frades incites such an exploration in the first leg of her five-part exhibition series of the senses entitled 鈥淚. Self-Medicate: Breathe In.鈥�
Her series of sculptures, which reflect the name of the exhibit, come as a collaboration with chandler Anne Cortez of TWO:AM Candle. These surreal mushrooms made of stoneware clay, alongside works from the series 鈥淟ucid鈥�, 鈥淲hen It Rains鈥�, and the biggest lone piece entitled 鈥淓ase鈥�, feature personalized candles for the exhibit. They invite the audience into a transcendent and intimate continuum of episodic memories, enticing positivity and allowing them to expand their concept of themselves at the present. She allows her intimate series of stoneware artworks to stimulate ubiquity in memories: to be in a renewed present state while breathing in the sentiments of the past.
Frades, aside from her transfigured mushroom artworks, also features a costume of symbolic decay made by KC Contrevida. The piece is composed of reprocessed teabags, homegrown kombucha leather, natural dyes and burnt organza and tulle鈥損ut together to represent a rebirth or rensence. These two pivotal elements of Breathe In summarizes Frades鈥� desire to empower and introspect through her sculpted spores, permeating through fragrances of nostalgia and enabling us to inhale the peaceful pockets of landscape in our past.
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Scent has always been like breadcrumbs of memories, where a single breath paints us a scene of emotions and allows us to relive an experience. Visual artist Pat Frades incites such an exploration in the first leg of her five-part exhibition series of the senses entitled 鈥淚. Self-Medicate: Breathe In.鈥�
Her series of sculptures, which reflect the name of the exhibit, come as a collaboration with chandler Anne Cortez of TWO:AM Candle. These surreal mushrooms made of stoneware clay, alongside works from the series 鈥淟ucid鈥�, 鈥淲hen It Rains鈥�, and the biggest lone piece entitled 鈥淓ase鈥�, feature personalized candles for the exhibit. They invite the audience into a transcendent and intimate continuum of episodic memories, enticing positivity and allowing them to expand their concept of themselves at the present. She allows her intimate series of stoneware artworks to stimulate ubiquity in memories: to be in a renewed present state while breathing in the sentiments of the past.
Frades, aside from her transfigured mushroom artworks, also features a costume of symbolic decay made by KC Contrevida. The piece is composed of reprocessed teabags, homegrown kombucha leather, natural dyes and burnt organza and tulle鈥損ut together to represent a rebirth or rensence. These two pivotal elements of Breathe In summarizes Frades鈥� desire to empower and introspect through her sculpted spores, permeating through fragrances of nostalgia and enabling us to inhale the peaceful pockets of landscape in our past.
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