The Beverly Oracle

Today our senior intern Christiana Lauzon is graduating! thanks for your amazing work, especially the chairs, and we all hope that you can continue being involved with the project. WARMEST CONGRATULATIONS for your graduation!!!!!! We will miss you! We know you will do great work out in the world! have FUN xo - your Beverly Oracle Team

Welcome to our new research intern, Christiana —

My name is Christiana Lauzon. I am a painter studying at Montserrat College of Art. I am 21 years old, born in Augusta, Maine. I love the smell of dirt and working with my hands. My art involves representational abstraction, working in drawings, paintings, sculptures, and written music. Artists that I admire are Robert Motherwell and the Bay Area figurative painters, for their love of relationships. A writer who has influenced me is Tim O’Brien — he wrote the "Things They Carried". My art finds itself a history: everyone's history and my own history. My work is not about the reward at the end, but the journey, I don’t believe that it is what I create that makes me an artist, it is how I think. I believe that it is about our perception. I want to know people down to their core, and for me to know a person means that I must also make myself vulnerable. I am not afraid of this — I am open. I believe in searching for honesty in all aspects of life, so that I might find a way to help another person move forward.