Kristine Schomaker

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING PHOTOS HAVE NUDITY. NSFW Having an eating disorder is not just about food. It is about who you are as a person. It is about what is below the skin, what the underlying concerns and issues are. For me it is about self confidence, self esteem, self sabotage, it is about my body. It is about who I am as a person, who I was in the past and who I want to be. As an artist, my work is always about exploration, experimentation, education, communication. It is a

Thoughts on my work. I recently felt compelled to cut up my abstract paintings into 12x12 inch squares. I put them in a stack and they transformed into a sculpture. The earliest paintings were from 1998 and the newest were created in 2015. Approximately 42 paintings deconstructed and reconstructed. I realized that destruction and transformation are recurring themes in my work. Before I cut up my paintings into smaller squares, I cut them off of their stretcher bars and hung t