A diary of an artist caught between the reality and dream; inner and outter worlds; starting and finishing a work; making and becoming the work itself.
Alice Stokes
drawing | sculpture | photomedia | installation
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CV
‘Floor Frottage’, 2026, graphite on black paper, approx. 40cm x 200 cm.
‘Shadow Leaves - Seoul’, 2026, paper clay and sumi-e ink, 24 components, various dimensions, approx. 3 × 7 cm each. *Background manipulated with ai
Untitled photographs, 2026, 8 bit digital photographs.
May - July 2026.
A frottage of fake wood linoleum.
An imitation of an imitation. Catching the odd stray hair, vestiges of a shared girls house (let’s not talk about the bathroom).
Paper-clay leaves peel the imprint from nearby mountain leaves. In these mountains a murder of crows or a conspiracy of ravens haunt.
S h a d o w L e a v e s - S e o u l :
There’s a prettiness about the landscape here. Or perhaps it’s only the surface that I gleamed. An awareness of being seen, shiny as a mirror.
*background manipulated with ai
8 b i t p h o t o s :
Under the bridge is a strange artifice of nature. A man made picturesque stream that swallowed a disused highway whole.