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Mixed media artist Ben Cuevas shares her work, process, and ideas
Rachel Kass
"For the record, this is the juice, not wine." Ben Cuevas said, holding up a blue plastic cup full of purple liquid. E 'was 2:30 in the morning, and Cuevas, a third year student at Hampshire College and mixed media artist, he had spoken to me of his latest installation entitled coverage.Having pulled on a sweatshirt with a hood lined with faux fur, which gracefully plopped himself at his desk clean, the only items on it be her MacBook, a fleet of clay ashtray made a small succulent plant called ( "Not I can not believe that what kept them alive for so long "), and its library, which holds a series of breaks in the books and a couple of small figurines. Reaching over his desk to pull open the window, asked: "So, you want to start a question?" I nodded, placing me next to a broken plush bull named Babe, who has the same nose ring as Cuevas.I admired the white jersey of the lamp hanging above his bed as he lit a cigarette and put a little 'dance music at low volume, oval face, shoulder length brown hair perfectly groomed, despite the six hour flight that had been above. His suitcase, which he bought before realizing it was a fake Louis Vuitton ( "I saw it and thought, wow, a cute brown bag for forty dollars!") Was half full of bright red yarn and sat neatly in a corner, waiting to be lifted. Cuevas had just returned from Los Angeles, where he had put the media coverage of action."It 'a critique and satire of iconic imagery that informs, envelops and saturates the social conscience," he said of his work in progress....
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