In repurposing found landscapes, Kelly Mattimoe reflects on the permanence of art, memory, nature, manufactured "safety" and the concept of “home.” By adding simplified renderings of single-family homes and picket fences Kelly aims to create a new kind of landscape that reflects a more suburban, manufactured “utopia” that defined her hometown in rural Ohio and the fallacies therein. Her obsession with natural disasters manifests as looming symbolic voids that disrupt the carefully curated settings. In her work on paper, core visual elements are pulled from the landscape and presented on meticulously recreated dot matrix continuous printer paper.
Repeating visual elements to create her own lexicon allows Kelly's work to be both a critique of life in contemporary, “small town,” Midwestern America and a deeply personal expression of the experience of it.
As a professional designer, under the brand, “My Bed is a Boat,” she helps organizations and businesses turn ideas into visuals, specializing in illustration for training and development.
Kelly is currently accepting new clients and commissions.
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