Misapprehended - Fall 2023 - Visual Arts

Juror: Enrique Fernández Cervantes
ZOË COUVILLION
Settled, 2023
Stone Lithography, 12” x 9”
During the beginning of this year, my life was in complete chaos.
I ended a long-term relationship, was in a car accident, had to
move because my lease was ending in Ohio, and couldn’t renew
the contract for my then-job. When friends would ask how I was
handling things, I would describe the days as being inside a
snow-globe: with every flake being an important element of my
life. I pictured myself sitting in the knick-knack and watching as
everything I couldn’t control flurried around me. I imagined clinging
desperately to the furniture inside—so as not to be swept away.
I knew the “snow” would eventually settle, but I wondered who
in my life would still be there when it did, among the fragments.
“Settled” relates to the theme of “Represent: Misapprehended”
because it speaks to the struggle of both trying to convey emotion
through visual metaphor, and narratively suggesting aloneness at
the bottom of the print. The figure joining mine on the couch in the
upper portion of the imagery dissolves as the “snow” stops moving,
leaving me to face the viewer alone in a bid for communication.
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