Come In Peace 2022

Curator: Rose Freymuth-Frazier created this acrylic on canvas piece, “Come In Peace,” in 2022. Editor: What a peculiar little tableau! I'm getting a quirky, slightly unsettling vibe. It’s like a Wes Anderson film distilled into a single frame, all hyper-stylized and pregnant with some unspoken narrative. Curator: Note the calculated arrangement. The subject—an ambiguous, spacesuited figure—sits rigidly in a blue dress. The external landscape appears fragmented, perhaps mediated through a window or screen. There’s a flatness to the color, a deliberate avoidance of naturalistic representation. Editor: Exactly! And that poor rabbit perched on the other chair…It looks so stiff, almost taxidermied. Is it her co-pilot or some kind of interstellar pet? The whole scene feels suspended, as if just waiting for something absurd to happen. Are those earths I see floating out there? Curator: Indeed, the motif of globes hovering outside, punctuating the liminal space behind our character, adds to this sense of hyperreality. It is as if the artist juxtaposes the domestic and the cosmic. She challenges our understanding of interiority versus exteriority in a fascinating visual dialogue. Editor: The artist clearly delights in visual irony and subverted expectations. The "peace offering" she appears to present seems…unlikely. Is it a hairspray grenade? Who would this appeal to in space, anyhow? Curator: Precisely, the details subvert expectations, offering an absurdist critique of human interaction in a shifting world. A visual paradox, really. The technique, reminiscent of naive art, further destabilizes any possibility of naturalism in representation. Editor: It also raises interesting questions, does it not, about artificiality and authenticity, doesn't it? In a world mediated through technology and constructed realities, can "peace" still be something genuine? Are those cloud shoulder pads too on the outfit? Curator: A fascinating point, how Freymuth-Frazier captures the mediated experience, leaving us pondering how we present and perceive in increasingly abstract spaces. This work presents more of a question, than a claim, of where we belong on an earthly level. Editor: An astronaut with a weapon and a bunny friend contemplating existence through a cosmic window - the ultimate zoom call dilemma, perhaps? Ultimately, the unsettling quality is probably the point of this conversation.