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it's a graphite drawing but on a panel

now I like to work on like flatter

surfaces because I find that the final

product is like a lot more shiny and

interactive instead of being on paper

and like feeling like a skin they

actually feel like these

three-dimensional things that you can

hold I'm Rachel burns I'm a high school

student about to graduate and I'm an

artist the process of making my work

it's more important than almost the

final piece I make paintings I draw I do

photographic work so I make paintings

that actually die they're made to fall

apart like I make hyper-realistic

drawings and then I would erase the

final product after and then my

photographic work is really

time-consuming I often collect a lot of

family archived photos and so I layer

100 photos on top of each other then

they become like this ambiguous form

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these are actually from a couple years

ago like these drawings when I first

started to draw realistic and I threw

photos from both both my parents homes

and then I kind of thought of having

them all in one collection so you're

experiencing two things at once two

different places at once and just like a

small so specific format every family

has their own history and they have ups

and down moments and I think that going

through all of those moments and all

that energy spent together really is

what I face a lot of my work from right

now I'm starting to new series I'm going

to make these like 47 by 67 inch

drawings which are composed at 100

photos face up that are just very

squished so they're very short but all

the same width to create these bands of

light in my layering them all in order

from oldest photos to newest photos you

are actually seeing the sediment of my

life

and then my other news series is going

back to erased drawings but in this case

I'm creating a pile of erase drawings so

when my mom would develop films and then

they give you like that paper envelope

full of a pile of photos kind of taking

the idea of taking a pile and just

hyper-realistic aliy drawing all these

five by seven inch photos and that

process of something starting off as a

photo and then I create a drawing and

then I erase the drawing so I have the

remnants eraser remnants and then I even

document those remnants as I like a

performance piece and so it starts off

as a photo and ends as a photo and you

just experience that whole process

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so this was a series of nine although

they are versions of like the same thing

they're still unique in there of their

own I can even see the the process over

time like my lines have gotten smoother

and they become more deliberate and

smaller I wanted something more fluid

and I think I'm starting to approach

that

I decided to apply to 38 of schools

around the world art schools I've been

offered from 24 schools a scholarship of

some form which have accumulated to 2.2

million I decided to stay home and just

make more connections here I'm gonna

miss a si but I know I'm not far like I

live very close and OCAD is in Toronto

so like I have that community there I

can help them and then I also have the

community the art community in Toronto

and and I think just having both like

that's just where I want to be and like

who knows like what other opportunities

can open up in the future

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