Emiland Kray

Just as you were about to unlock your door, you dropped your key and it shattered into one million seemingly identical keys

Cyanotype, watercolor on paper, RISO print, binders board, linen, mirror, vinyl

“A flag book inspired by a nightmare about running away from my childhood home…My artwork poses questions about the mechanics of how we remember—the complexity that exists within those entangled systems of perception and reality. I visually introduce dreamy instances of slippage in our recollection of the past and the decay of memory towards nostalgia… With a combination of watercolor, ink, game design, and book arts, I create tension between the factual and the remembered."

— Emiland Kray

About the artist

Emiland Kray

American

Emiland Kray, is a visual artist working primarily with book arts and game design to investigate the complexities and fallacies of memories and dreams by manipulating our attachment to nostalgic and familiar forms. He began his artistic career by living and working in Las Vegas, Nevada and received his BFA from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2020. That same year, he began his MFA at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He has participated in group shows nationally since 2016 and has had solo shows across Nevada and in Arizona. Since then, Kray continues to make art with a focus on community involvement and volunteer work and has graduated with his MFA in the Spring of 2023.