Michelle Bowen

My work takes a critical view of social constructs often perceived as absolute and fixed. Convinced that these perceptions keep humanity stagnant, my current project, Huelitic Code, exposes the vulnerabilities and limitations of humanity’s most significant construct, language.

By changing each letter of the English alphabet to color, my work provokes a look beyond the ‘four walls’ of language and its perceived fundamental nature. The resulting geometric designs convey something common yet unique, familiar yet foreign; thus, confounding the original text, and calling into question assumptions about meaning, certainty, and truth.

I am a communications professional and a self-taught fine artist. I am highly curious and passionate about the power of artistic expression over all other forms of communication.

Although I provide a way to decode my work, the ‘truth’ is not in the doing (i.e., decoding), but in the not doing; to step back and release oneself from the bounds of arbitrary manmade labels, groups etc. and move to a higher level of consciousness -- something only the purity of art can help achieve.




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