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COLLECTION NAME:
CVPA Student Collection
Record
resource_ID:
20kcouturier_006
resource_ID:
20kcouturier_007
resource_ID:
20kcouturier_008
resource_ID:
20kcouturier_009
resource_ID:
20kcouturier_010
artist_name:
Couturier , Katelyn
artist_variant_name:
Katelyn Couturier
artist_nationality:
USA
artist_vital_dates:
1993
UMassD_CVPA_degree:
MFA - Visual Design
graduation_year:
2020
area_of_study:
Graphic Design
additional_acad_degrees :
BA Communications & Foreign Language (American University)
medium:
Sculpture/Fibers
work_title:
Because Every Body is a Celebration (I Love Rainbow Sprinkles)
technique:
cast paper
work_date:
2019
dimensions:
16" x 24.5" x 6
description:
Cast paper. 8 hour abaca, cotton, methylcellulose and rainbow sprinkles.Embedded with sprinkles, this torso is a reminder that every body is a celebration. I've always thought I hated sprinkles, not eating anything with them on it because I just did not like them. When I was a child, maybe 5 or 6 years old, I remember a birthday where I wouldn't eat my own cake. I wasn't explicitly on a diet, but first grade was the first time I'd been called fat, and there were women in my life that were dieting, so my young brain somehow internalized those actions and perceived body shame into this act of restriction. My memory of this refusal to eat my birthday cake still bothers me. I have spent years hating sprinkles as the embodiment of this moment, this representation of my learned inability to celebrate myself. Intuitive eating is a new practice for me, and in relearning to understand how hunger finding foods and routines that work for my body, I've been trying all kinds of new things. It's felt like a fun challenge, learning to incorporate foods I once feared, ever tried or just forgot that I loved: like rainbow sprinkles. This piece is a reminder that I am allowed to like rainbow sprinkles. It's a reminder that while diet and restriction mentalities will forever be a part of my thoughts, having learned that those thoughts are no longer a part of me is something worth celebrating every day. Most importantly, it's a reminder that I am allowed to celebrate myself, body, mind and heart, and is meant as an open invitation to the viewer that their body is worthy of that celebration.
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