Kaelyn Belloni, A Girl Again
Paper and cotton fabric cyanotype prints
Throughout art history, women have been allegorized by artists as natural beings like Mother Nature and Springtime. A Girl Again brings together multimedia and natural elements which highlight themes of femininity, youth, and nature. The work incorporates personal and historical photographs, flower petals and leaves, postcards, screenplays, and literature which depict interpersonal female relationships and the delicate nature of experiencing girlhood throughout history.
The transience of girlhood is depicted through cyanotypes because there is a ghostly and ephemeral quality, transposed through time and subject to chance, which captures the lost moment within the nature of femininity with an atmospheric perspective of memory.A Girl Again on view at Gamut, Loyola Marymount University T.P.K. Gallery April 20 to May 6, 2023
References
Songs
Taylor Swift: "Never Grow Up," "Nothing New," "Fifteen," "Seven," and "Marjorie"
Fleetwood Mac, "Landslide"
ABBA, "Chiquitita"
Phoebe Bridgers, "Graceland Too"
a playlist of these and other songs which inspired A Girl Again can be found here
Literature
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Emily Dickinson, "I am afraid to own a Body"
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Film
Greta Gerwig, Little Women (2019)