CAROL ES
ARTIST STATEMENT

Growing up in the sweatshops of the Los Angeles apparel industry with my dysfunctional family has become the thread that flows through the story in my work. Dreams, childhood memory, and the materials from the garment manufacturing trade creep into my artwork as a type of redemption. My work is fairly personal and I frequently include my family members as cartoon characters. They are often embroidered on top of oil paint and industrial pattern paper that combine abstract painting with such interchangeable concepts as outsider art, childlike textiles and visionary drawings.

I see my work as an argument for reality and a sort of sarcastic documentation where I use narratives as bits of paradoxical truths that reveal psychological trepidation. My practice has often resulted in finding emotional resolve which I can sometimes, somehow translate in the work. Art has become an almost obsessive, methodical activity I've used to distract my mind from difficulties I've had to encounter. At the same time, it is also a saving grace I use to reconstruct what wasn't.



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