Ella Rochelle-Lawton
Neighborhood: Western Addition
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I was born and raised in San Francisco. Inspired by my surrounding artistic communities, street art culture, and my experiences with housing instability, my work explores themes of technology, San Francisco daily disparities, and creative power to reclaim.
Through my work, I consider who has claim and custody of space and the endurance of urban and natural environments. Overlapping collage and repetitions serve to expand understanding of how accumulative imagery in street art and social media demand space. Through mixed media and installation choices, I create texture and color contrast between technological and organic shape to meld scenes of nostalgic memories of the Bay Area with modern realities.