My name is Leandra Bourdot, and I am a senior Fine Arts major. Throughout my life, an interest in storytelling and bookmaking has been the driving force behind my work, and this is what my respective interests in painting, collage, and pen-and-ink illustration have found outlet in. Process is also an incredibly important element in the creation of my work. In the process of telling the story I find I work most successfully if I work towards mirroring the story myself; and in so doing, I find elements in my external world mirroring my stories. This lends an almost magical conviction to my process of creating work and to the work itself, which I feel rounds out the elements essential to it.
In the upcoming year I aim to continue this process, focused along a story first conceived over five years ago which has since evolved and come to rest in the form I am now exploring. Since then, I have begun work on a number of pieces I want to utilize as part of the storytelling, including painting, 3-d collage, and the writing and illustrating of a book. I hope to continue on with this work to push towards an immersive overall piece.
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Very informative artist's statement, I definitely get a good feel for your overall style as well as what you're currently working on. Some of the sentences in the first paragraph are a bit long, so breaking them up might be useful for clarity's sake. I can understand by the way because have the same problem myself sometimes...good job =)
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