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Out of Sort
Kasie Siegmund
Acrylic, 11 x 10 in.
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Towns Silent Watch
Kasie Siegmund
Acrylic, 12 x 16 in.
Towns’ Silent Watch explores refuge and resilience, capturing a father and son traversing a haunting, gray urban landscape at night. This journey serves as a visual metaphor for the global refugee crisis and the desperate search for peace. Using acrylics with a limited palette, I emphasize the “quiet exhaustion” of the figures. The contrast between deep shadows and soft light highlights their black-clad forms, focusing on the father’s heavy burden of guardianship. Through their tired posture and gripped hands, the piece reveals a poignant truth: hope is carried, not found. It is a tribute to those driven by an unbreakable promise of peace.
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Static Truths
Kasie Siegmund
Watercolor on paper, 16 x 20 in.
Static Truths explores the emotional dissonance of watching global crises through a televised lens. The piece features two young boys holding a television; inside the screen, bright, playful colors mask the reality of the unfolding tragedy in Gaza. Outside this frame, the world bleeds into a colorless void of dust and grief. I transitioned from oil pastels to watercolor to achieve a fluid, vulnerable wash that captures raw human struggle. By stripping away media sensationalism, the work confronts the resilience of innocent lives. It serves as an urgent plea for empathy, transforming passive observation into profound understanding.
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Riley Fleming
15 x 15 in.
For this self portrait, the perspective is swapped to acknowledge the artist observing marine life. A curious, candid expression is being worn, as if a camera was zoomed out and the subject hasn’t realized it yet. The bubble is a whimsical method of breathing underwater, implying the subject has been there for a long expanse of time, simply observing. To be an artist is to be watchful, reflective, and communicative. This piece alongside its place with the rest of the collection brings together the sense of unity between us and our marine friends.
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Prismatic Shores
Riley Fleming
Watercolor on paper, 9 x 12 in.
This piece, Prismatic Shores, was the beginning of a collection centered around exploring and expanding upon the observations that occurred to me when referencing marine life and its many intricacies. Prismatic Shores aims to capture the beauty of light filtering through a coral reef’s surface, utilizing shades of pink, blue, and yellow. This piece aims to inspire and reinvent my own perception of our oceans.