CMR Group

The amazing Laurel Parnell answered all my dumb questions 🤍

Christine Rucker, MSW!! Finally, I’ve completed my master’s degree in clinical social work. It is a pleasure to close this chapter and start a new one as a supervisee in social work in Virginia and a LMSW in New York. Thank you to my family and friends for your support 💕

October & December 2006. Photographs, press type, acrylic, color pencils, tracing paper, markers, pen and pencil on watercolor Moleskine and Bombay journal from B&N.

My stories and sketchbooks became more encoded and abstracted as I started to really play with storytelling. This was likely a result of 2 things: (1) I lost a sense of privacy after I exhibited my journal, and (2) Listening to too much PJ Harvey. I thought a lot about this excerpt from her Wiki:

"She rejects the notion that her song lyrics are autobiographical, telling The Times in 1998: 'the tortured artist myth is rampant. People paint me as some kind of black witchcraft-practising devil from hell, that I have to be twisted and dark to do what I am doing. It's a load of rubbish'. What is more, she later told Spin: 'some critics have taken my writing so literally to the point that they'll listen to 'Down by the Water' and believe I have actually given birth to a child and drowned her.'"

I loved painting stories around the photographs of my friends, random people and places. It was fun to take different elements and put them together.

Portfolio of art work from 2010 to 2019.