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"On the Tip of My Tongue"

Using Encyclopedia Britannica Archival Footage this film tests the limits of the human brains bandwidth and ability to recall. Is access to quick information causing our memory to atrophy? What is the impact of technology on our ability to form knowledge?

"Promises"

Intrigued by the anthropological approach of making the familiar, unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar, familiar, I attempt to incorporate these concepts in my work by utilizing people’s current perceptions and understandings of the world to challenge and recreate their future ones. 

"Reflections on the Future," Tree stumps, etched mirrors, projection, 2020, Scale Variable

This work was created as a response to the two largest fires in Boulder County’s history burning in the fall of 2020. The reflections of tree rings collapse temporal space and express time alternatively to human measurements. Tree rings are catalogues of an area’s climate; through them we can decipher records of growth, wet and dry seasons, and the age of the tree. Visitors are positioned within the installation; their bodies will be reflected along with the trees, embedded in the problem.

"Living Wall," wood, paper towels, chia seeds, twine, 3.5 ft x 2 ft

“Living Wall” explores the paradigm of repurposing materials to facilitate the new life of an organism. The contrast between the natural materials and the steel rod emphasizes the way that humans could, even with many technological advancements, relearn to live symbiotically with the planet, as they were meant to do, instead of depleting its natural resources.

"keep this list with you in case you need to use it" (16mm, sound, 1 min. 24s)

Emily Van Loan is an experimental filmmaker and artist. They create diaristic, autobiographical works with the intention of fostering connections between audience and maker or perhaps within an audience.

"Poise and Grace," 2020, acrylic paint pens, 8.5" by 11"

This drawing was meant to be a humorous approach to the expectations of women being beautiful and polite and never just themselves. Going to the bathroom lacks any and all class. There is nothing less ladylike than a portrait of a young girl sitting on a toilet with an empty bottle in front her passed out against the wall.