Kel Mur

I am an emotional person. Everything I make is something deeply personal that I am trying to push though a universal filter. I am constantly fascinated with how people interact with each other and how they process the traumas they\'ve experienced in their lives. It\'s the things that we have done, that have happened to us, that we have touched, heard, and smelled that make us who we are. I grew up in New Jersey and went to Monmouth University for Art where I graduated with Honors and received the Creativity in Studio Art Award for my senior thesis, COMMODITY. Since then I have relocated to New Orleans and have done some local shows and sell handmade jewelry in markets. RAW found me at a Pancakes and Booze show in May of 2014 and I have been trying to utilize that stroke of luck ever since. My work has gone through many phases. I love the female figure and how it has been commercialized, objectified, and celebrated. As a result I have made work steeped in feminist theory honoring the true from of the female body. I also hold a passion for found objects. I love that they have had lives and purposes that I will never know. Often times, I turn found objects into personal symbols that illustrate the stories of my own history somehow finding an intimate connection is someone\'s discarded possession.