The Work of Abby Crochet

 My collection simulates a detachment from reality and the natural order. These works show a beauty within the unusual; a beauty can be seen behind the hypernormal sometimes, too. A part of my mind exists within each of these works. Sometimes, my imagination translates segments of reality into this glowing, digital version of itself, so, to a degree, I shared what I could within this collection. Every piece makes you feel as if you’ve stepped into a place you never meant to. 

My typical art style manifests in technical skill and hyper-realism. My work retains elements of that while also introducing certain styles that I admire. Instead of dedicating so much time to the technical aspects of my pieces, my main focus went to creating visual appeal and mixing an eye-catching color palette. 

With this collection, I examined creation beyond my usual comfort zone of neutral tones and hyperrealism. My pieces explore intense color and unusual subject matter. I find interest in technologically glitched images and 80’s retrowave art style inspired my palette and the techno elements of my collection. My collection was created in the hope that every piece would have an element of something that just seems slightly off. Whether the image is just slightly distorted or a composition of otherworldly enigma, every work explores how uncomfortable and unsettled an OCD brain can get by a single off element. The skewed relationship between subjects themselves or the joint manner that they are existing in their planes causes the brain to double-take, as it believes that the neurotransmitters translating signals from the eyes to the brain misinterpret what they see. Each of my works stemmed from a foundation of these elements: color, subject, and something traditional to the 80’s retrowave style, yet unstable. To begin, I planned a color scheme, things I’d daydreamed about in all of my spare time because this collection is constantly evolved and improving in my thoughts. When I picked out my subject, something of nature or a person, I found my find element to implement. Certain traditional images make up the bones of 80’s art--a gridded landscape; glowing cityscapes; the deformed sun; everything neon, linear, and dark. With the bare idea of my work, my brain kicks into overdrive until an image emerges, constantly changing adapting as I translate my pieces into reality. The classic black and white inhabiting every work developed in this adapting process. Alongside the unnatural feel and bright scheme to every work, some element of black and white exists within the rest to contrast these unsettling feelings. My collection developed in different methods and in an unidentifiable order, but all my works exist within a similar plane of cohabitation with reality. An undetectable progression lives from work to work.