Lucie Jumonville
Sculptural ceramic artist based in the Chicagoland Area.
ARTIST BIOLucie Jumonville is a Studio Art major pursuing her BFA at North Central College. She is also a College Scholars Honors student and minoring in Classical Studies. Her interest in mythology and storytelling is found throughout her art. She works primarily with clay, but occasionally you can find her creating two-dimensional work. Lucie has work in the permanent collection of Waubonsee Community College and has had her work appear in the 2024 edition of Horizons, the Waubonsee literary magazine.
The Divine
Story keeping is the art and craft of telling stories to keep them alive and pass them down. My work is created from the perspectives of different story keepers sharing tales of the Divine Age. “Flora and Fauna” acts as an entry point into a mythological world of divine figures and their foes, and the ones passing down the stories of these strange beings. I use clay to create simplified, whimsical animal sculptures to explore how myth, nature, and storytelling intersect.Mythology offers a way to explain the creation of the natural world and its inhabitants. Beyond this, myth provides the world with structure through religious practices and the concept of the ‘Divine.’ I have created a narrative exploring both
how the Divine creates environments and act as stewards for these environments. By showing my four-legged creatures in different stages, I explore how divinity acts as an inherited title and duty rather than an inherent state of being. The Divine go through a life cycle where they grow into their power and titles before returning to the land and passing their power on. I also look at the corruption of the Divine and the struggle to adapt to the ensuing disruption of communities and life cycles. The Divine are caretakers and creators, when they are corrupted their communities splinter, becoming lost or corrupted as well.This body of work is primarily an introduction to the life cycles of the Divine, and all the inhabitants of this world. The work in “Flora and Fauna” is only the beginning of an ongoing series exploring this world and all of its inhabitants.
Classical Mythology in art
Nulla vitae dictum auctor etiam vitae pharetra euismod. Cursus fringilla nulla lectus vulputate porttitor at dignissim nisi urna odio mus quis.
relics
Nec nascetur vis feugiat cras quisque luctus libero.
growth and decay
Nulla vitae dictum auctor etiam vitae pharetra euismod. Cursus fringilla nulla lectus vulputate porttitor at dignissim nisi urna odio mus quis.
