Tempered Magazine December 2013 // January 2014 // Issue 01 | Page 40

TAYLOR CHAMPOUX ‘13 Visible Invisibles Rearview About the Work For Visible Invisibles, I created the image by combining four of my own individual drawings into one relief print. The top two are homeless men that I saw near I-94 exit ramps, the bottom left is of a Dutch woman in the city of Groningen, and the bottom right is of a man in Glasgow. My strange artistic attraction to the subject of homeless people has been ongoing since May, and I cannot fully explain why it struck me. I don’t believe that most people really see the homeless - or if they do, they forget within a matter of minutes. Drawing them makes me feel as if I am acknowledging their occupation of that space. It also shows me details easily missed when passing them by. Rearview is the first print in a series created based off of homeless people encountered within the Twin CIties metro and in Europe. This piece reflects the anonymous nature of the homeless, how we never know them individually but rather en masse as a sort of generic stereotype. About Taylor I am a recent graduate of Macalester College, where I majored in Studio Art and completed a senior honors art project as part of my degree. My work isn’t completely discrete in terms of subject matter or media, and I work with anything ranging from relief printmaking, graphite, pen and ink, watercolor to oil paint. In general, my work deals with figurative subjects or impressions of landscapes. To see more of Taylor’s work, visit http://reinasan.tumblr.com/ 40