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The image shows a small room with its walls covered in a variety of papers. The papers depict creatures and monsters the artist has concocted, journal entries from a fictional artist's perspective, sticky notes adding more information to the monsters, and unfinished sketches of miscellaneous creatures. In the middle of the small room is a podium holding a binder containing the book the artist created called "Monsters Among Us: A Guide of Things Beyond Our Sight".

Monsters Among Us: A Guide of Things Beyond Our Sight (WIP)

Lynn Faulkner

Mixed Media

Undergraduate

This body of work is about exploring the concepts of monsters through the lens of trauma and the queer identity. I have created my own monsters to reflect different emotions that I hold in relation to my queerness: feeling unseen, self disdain, and pride. Monsters have been a major part of my childhood, mainly as a means of processing my experiences growing up as a queer person in an unstable household. Through my work, I want to give people space to reflect, to laugh, and to discover that it is possible to heal through these monsters.

This piece is set up as a worldbuilding meta installation made up of dozens of journal entries, sketches, and final works. It is meant to reflect upon the monsters that represent different concepts and experiences of being queer and marginalized. The work itself is seen through the POV of a college student trying to graduate with an art degree. Sounds familiar.