Alicia Haromony LaRue

‘I have always known art would be my voice,’ says Alicia Harmony LaRue, ‘and I have chosen garbage as my medium.’ Living in an aboriginal community in the middle of one of the world’s largest oil fields, LaRue experienced the angst in the struggle to shift to a sustainable world. In the portrait of a First Nations Chief, smoke is not the smoke of the peace pipe but a contamination flowing into and out of the headdress feathers. The Oilsands Scream is a warning to us all.

LaRue has created some witty and caustic visual statements about defiling the beautiful and profound in art and in nature, as in Recycled Mona and Debut of Consumerism. We have an exaggerated monetary value on art and a careless pollution of our natural treasures. She says, ‘the ultimate form of recycling is to create art from trash.’ Fraught with reference to destructive ideas and activity the bits and pieces of rubbish seen in a new context become attractive in colour, texture and form. This intriguing technique and strong message in a visually appealing and aesthetic form is an inspiration for change.

 

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Alicia Harmony LaRue is an emerging artist, a graduate of Alberta College of Art and Design.
ahlarue@hotmail.com


 

Alicia LaRue, Recycled Mona