Painting
Abscission: Sweet Little Lies
Oil Paint, on semi exposed wooden board. with A therapeutic meditative painting, processing a mixture of gas-lighting inflicted by both others and myself. A reflection on having to come to terms with my own gender and sexuality.
Performance
Carona: Smart Cars Wear Masks
The sight of a face mask littering the streets became a common sight early on in the pandemic. I sought to make it an icon image of the streets in a different way with the intention of infecting a smile. What a better way to do that than to put the... More
Drawing
Cat Call Series
Based off Rafuse's personal experiences of Sexual Harassment around the GTA. Each drawing is a location where Rafuse experienced sexual harassment. The hosiery stretched over each drawing represents the sexualized lens of the aggressors within each... More
Digital Media
Character Design Exploration
Playing around with a variety of base shapes and designing characters around those shapes
Illustration
Cyborg Self Portrait
Reimaging myself as a cyborg. Inspired by the art style of comics such as Teen Titans and Hinterkind.
Mixed Media
Faux Stain Glass
Finding ways to represent nature within the city, Eden utilizes the imagery of a stained glass window in a place of worship to honor the nature surrounding the city. Through use of rice paper soaked in bees wax Eden mimics the style of a stained... More
Painting
Ingrained
Sparrow Lake landscape painting evoking personal connections to lands and the ghostly presence of other peoples connections with the same land across time.
Illustration
Ittzy Character Sheet
Inspired by glowberries from Minecraft this little fairy is just obsessed with the overly sweet treat! Ittzy will literally playing the worlds smallest violin when she runs out of her favorite glow berry jam. Ittzy dress is made from Poppy flowers... More
Painting
Left Unturned
Based off the wiccan ideology of autumn being the time to reflect on your past and recognize what is no longer serving ones present. Rafuse creates a series of wreaths and out of willow branches and crochet's them together with yellow yarn. During... More
Textiles
Mussel Memory
A lot of my work explores the idea of land connection. But my families most trackable history is in Nova Scotia. Through this piece I was connecting with those roots as relatives remarked stories of seeing their parents tie nets for lobster traps,... More
Animation
Not So Presto: Stop Motion 2D Animation
My first Stop Motion Experimentation using paper puppets. Painted in Watercolour and then shot and compiled through Dragon Frame.
Painting
Repossession
Painting illustrates the narrative of a pirate who sent their life pillaging and plundering the sea, to try to gain fortunes and their fate, as their skull now lays at the bottom of the sea now reclaimed into it's ecosystem.
Mixed Media
Scent Scape
Turning the conventions of a landscape painting on it's head: Rafuse creates a landscape composition through scent associations of herbs rather than colour. Herbs are stuffed into pockets sewn into a tulle fabric mimicking a large rectangular tea... More
Painting
Sea Witches Treasure
Capturing the feeling of a Hopeful Calmness in a painting through imagery and a fixed colour scheme.
Mixed Media
Sedimentary Sentiments
Growing up I had the habit of collecting rocks. My pockets were always full of them and I remember a teacher warning me if everyone grabbed the rocks there'd be none left. This though has always oddly stuck with me. Much of my art practice has been... More
Painting
Surface Tension
Intended for installation on gallery floor to create an uneasy feeling in viewer as they look down on this vulnerable moment.
Sculpture
Tea Time Terrarium
During the isolation of covid their was a renewed interest in interior design as people were forced to spend more time in their house. This piece is inspired by the idea of trying to foster a feeling of calmness and growth within a small space.
Performance
Temporary Comfort: Long Term Pain
Rafuse reflects on being in a toxic relationship in which there is satisfaction within the moment, but as time goes on it does more harm than good.
Other
Theory of Nothing
Inspired by String theory and studies on dark matter, this pieces expresses a feeling of being directionless and confused as one transitions from adolescence to adulthood.
Illustration
Truman Weasel Character Design
This Character is a Weasel who writes articles about people to push his own narratives. Don't let the name fool you Truman's articles are often far from the truth. Designs of eyes, glasses and Jacket trimmings inspired by elements of a type writer
Illustration
Z-stream Book Shelf Animation Asset
An Asset for an upcoming animation project with Z-stream. Colour test.
Work by
Eden Rafuse
Drawing, Painting and Animation
“A Drawing and Painting Graduate who has dipped their toe in every medium pond. Expanding into 2D Stop Motion Animation. Eden's favorite mediums are cut paper, paint, plant materials and anything with...” [More]