Rachel Hawthorn is an artist from Denver, CO, working with photography with ventures into film, paint, and digital media. Hawthorn’s work deals with issues of memory and remembrance creating psychological investigations of memory using visual cues from personal and domestic landscapes. Hawthorn is also interested in the more academic concerns of digital media in relation to visual arts, originality and authorship. With her work regularly exhibited in Colorado, Rachel is making a move toward a greater level of exposure and experience as an exhibiting artist, author and juror. Her poetry and fiction have also been published in small journals, and continue to receive praise.

The artist describes her Work from the Window series that will be featured in the RULE Exhibition.

“Work from the Window series is about the connection between my past and my present, both the familial connections and the expectations of the role of a female in the family (specifically mine) and a family (in the general sense). The concept of family is shaped so much by those around us, and by the history given to us by our family. With my relocation to Colorado, 1,500 miles away from the nearest family member, family history has been distilled to the primary recollections of 'important' memories. After my grandmother died, I realized there was so very little that ties a family together— even the memories become fragile and dissolve, because each person places a different spin on those memories, and a different level of importance. The images in this series are an attempt to create the space between those 'important' memories, and focus the attention on the things that happen when we aren't paying attention, and the beauty of the smaller, insignificant parts of life.”