Ciel Rodriguez
Instances of Seeing II (2021)
Media: handmade paper collage, rose petals, tea leaves, cyanotypes, thread, abaca
Statement: My recent handmade paper collages focus on enveloping my viewers in quiet expanses, evoking states of mind or states of remembrance. I make holes in the surface of the paper, embodying the fading nature of memory as time slips by and details within our memories fall away.
a stillness unravels (2022)
Media: handmade paper collage, sunflowers, tea leaves, cyanotypes, thread, abaca
Statement: My recent handmade paper collages focus on enveloping my viewers in quiet expanses, evoking states of mind or states of remembrance. I make holes in the surface of the paper, embodying the fading nature of memory as time slips by and details within our memories fall away.
Instances of Seeing IV (2022)
Media: handmade paper collage, sunflowers, tea leaves, cyanotypes, thread, abaca
Statement: My recent handmade paper collages focus on enveloping my viewers in quiet expanses, evoking states of mind or states of remembrance. I make holes in the surface of the paper, embodying the fading nature of memory as time slips by and details within our memories fall away.
Ciel Rodriguez is a papermaker, letterpress printer, bookbinder and possible poet. She completed her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an emphasis in photography and papermaking. She received her MFA from the University of Georgia in Printmaking and Book Arts, as well as Museum Studies. While at UGA, Rodriguez was awarded the Wilson Center Graduate Research Grant for her thesis research in large scale papermaking and was a graduate instructor teaching printmaking and bookmaking. Rodriguez currently works at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University as a museum preparator with the Exhibitions team.
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