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Diary
STATEMENT:
Diary is an experiment in vulnerability that manifests as a multimedia diptych. On one side is my diary in its entirety spanning the six years between 2014 and 2020, the contents of which are censored, with the exception of sentences containing any reference to “Abby Millar,” with whom I had a close yet tumultuous friendship. Mirroring it is a video of Abby encountering this diary, a comprehensive record of my teenage experiences of her, for the first time. Like Abby, viewers are encouraged to read the diary and chart the narrative of our friendship, participating in this unusual collision between an intense personal narrative and its subject. Diary invites its audience to engage with the fallout surrounding a specific individual history by indulging in their voyeuristic impulses, but it also seeks to ask a universal question about how radical vulnerability can transform relationships and recontextualize the events of the past.
ARTIST BIO:
Elliot is a queer multimedia artist hailing from Northern Colorado. As a junior at Gallatin, they’re studying the history, theory, and practice of visual art, but are particularly interested in exploring how their work can function as a tool that unearths and recontextualizes the events of the past. Their interdisciplinary art practice aims to expand discrete personal narratives into universally applicable practices of honesty, transparency, and vulnerability. By allowing the execution of the art piece to provide a justification for constructing a non-normative social situation, their work attempts to connect its hypothetical subject matter with its real-world counterpart, bridging theory and practice.
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