Camille Rose Garcia Presentation

Of all the presentations last Thursday, Camille Rose Garcia really caught my attention because her work is so original and imaginative. A lot of Garcia's work is very psychadelic, and has elements of fairy tale characters. When asked about the nature of her work, Garcia says, "There’s always the battle, I feel, as a female. You’re always going to be fighting. And you’re always going to be fighting something really big." Garcia, like many other American children, has absorbed a lot of Disney characters, so she chooses to reinterpret those characters in her art work, and she does this in order to get to her viewer's subconscious and tap into the things they already find familiar in order to bring home her message.

In her work,  "The Garden of the Tooth Witch," she uses the imagery of a tooth to depict death. This is a reaccuring theme in her work, as to her, teeth are a reminder that we are just living in physical bodies that are continually decaying and breaking down.
I really liked this painting because it definitely played into the memories of Disney and fairy tales from when I was younger, much like Garcia aims to do in her work. I love this piece because it shows that there is always a dark underbelly to what society seems to make "perfect," because nothing is truly perfect in this world. There is always a dark side to anything, even perhaps fairy tales, and even though society doesn't want to talk about it, that darkness and imperfection is there just below the surface, and I think this painting shows that dark side of things in a really beautiful and eerie way.