Christy Rupp
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Christy Rupp
We live as a part of an amazing organism that has the capacity to regenerate, given a chance. We also live in the waste stream. Garbage is a combat zone where our desire for comfort and function meet the limits of our nest.
The investigation into how we concoct our opinions of nature fuels my studio practice.
Like most baby boomers in Post War America, Walt Disney film & TV schooled my opinions of wildlife, framing my ideas about the environment. In Bambi’s world, man and deer can’t coexist. We are locked in conflict. That’s an old myth that has gotten us deeply in debt to the planet.
Since the 70s, my work has focused on the relationship of economics and the environment. Science is where the ideas begin, but my hands are the vehicle for imagination and action.
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