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> Local artist creates new style called ‘splatter paint’

Jillian McMullen
Staff Writer

 

Mee Veronika Elizabethe Parker,
a Vancouver-based visual artist
making waves in the arts community for
developing a never-before-seen painting
style, has sold out her debut show. The
new style consists of the artist whipping
paint, typically acrylic, onto a canvas with
a sort of flicking motion. These actions
result in a “splattered” effect—the effect
from which Parker got her style’s name.
The Other Press was luckily able to
catch Parker at her show in a rare moment
alone to about her innovative style. Her
work has been compared to Jackson
Pollock’s drip paintings, an association
which Parker resents, stating that “His
art all looked, like, the same. It had no
message and therefore, like, no point.”
According to Parker, she feels her
style is innovative not just for visual arts,
but also for the performance arts. “My
goal is to change how we, like, do art.
Like, different movements create different
splatters. Moving paint from brush to

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The following was recorded at the
Areciba Observatory in Peurto Rico,
shortly before New Year's Eve:

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English translation... ahem.

Dear Earth! We recently got
the spacecraft you sent—Voyager,
I think it was called. We decided
to take it as an open invitation to
come by and check things out. We
remotely looked in on you last year,
around your Earth month of July.

canvas by flicking my wrist instead of,
like, throwing my arm sends a message
regarding my investment. By privileging,
like, certain movements over others, I

privilege, like, certain aspects of my body.
The style becomes a study of the body and

how we, like, place limitations on it,” she
explained. “Like, my goal is to broaden
those capacities by exploring different

ways to create paint splatters, you know?”

Parker explained that she broadens
artistic horizons by employing different,
unexpected tools to create new, complex
techniques, two of which she calls
“scooping” and “straw-blowing.”

“Scooping” involves Parker dipping
the scoop-end of a plastic spoon into her

paint of choice, rotating it so the bowl faces

the canvas, pulling back on the bowl-end

of the spoon, and quickly releasing it so the
spoon catapults the paint onto the canvas.

The “straw-blowing” involves Parker
dipping the end of a straw into paint,
removing it, and blowing into the clean
end to transfer the paint onto the canvas.
While she has found her style
rewarding, Parker has also found it
emotionally taxing. “You know, I’m, like,

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before we arrived. Earth seemed like a
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it was amazing that he even won.

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We regret to inform you that, as a
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really putting myself out there with this
one. Like, I said this is about the body, but
it’s, like, really about my body. My body is
in those splatters, you know? Everything I
feel, all my insecurities. Like, the attention
has been nice, but sometimes I feel like

Unfortunately, this means you
will not be receiving any gifts from
us. We had gathered that Earth
month December was a time for
showering acquaintances with gifts
for some reason, and had brought a
few along in case we needed to fit in.
You were going to get blueprints for
a jump drive, and an assortment of
replicator arrays, as well as the answer
to Fermi’s paradox, but we can’t in
good conscience allow you out into
the universe with that unmitigated
disaster of a leader at the helm.

We might check back in a decade or
two and see how things are then. We're
hopeful, but you're really going to have
to get things together if you want our

people don’t appreciate what I’m doing.”
Although advance tickets for the
show have sold out, tickets will be
available at the door nightly. Her show
runs from January 10 to 17th at the
Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver.

    

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tourist dollars. We have left Earth a bad
review on our travel website, so don't
expect any other visitors in the next
little while. We'll revise it next time

we stop by if things have improved.

I suppose this means you know
there’s other life out here, now. Well, at
least we've answered that one for you.
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The transmission terminated
after that. Scientists are still debating
as to the exact meaning of the
message. So far, they have managed
to access Space Yelp, and are hard
at work trying to make an account
without a universal translator.