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Carter herself started early. She. has an old photograph taken when she was 14 years old; she had just won her first competition. She remembers the painting, but no longer has it because it was one of the things she lost to Hurricane Camille.
Hurricanes are a reason Carter nqw lives in Diamondhead. She has many ties to the Gulf Coast'but she does not want to live too close to the water. Her parents lived in New Orleans but built a camp in Pass Christian prior to World War II and
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became permanent residents during the latter part of the war. In addition, both her grandparents had summer homes on the coast.
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two and a half years ago and completely redesigned the inside. The studio up front had a lot to do with my buying it, but now I want more room. I want;a bam,? she said, showing where her projects have overflowed into the garage and even the dining room, where she is experimenting with a project involving a hea?vy canvas stretched over a lighter one.
?I?m basically ^a two-dimensional artist. I love etchings, drawings, anything of that sort, and I do some conceptual art too,? she explains.
?I have done ceramics, jewelry-making, you name it, because when you?re an art education major you have to know everything.?
Her favorite subject for drawing and painting is the human figure, and she likes working with live models. When she paints, though, she does not paint only what she sees. She alters it to give the picture a message.
?I know what I want a picture to say. One of the paintings in my current show in Biloxi is of a
girl sitting on the beach, but it?s more than that, because she?s reviewing her life. I think people can see what she?s doing .when they look at it,? Carter said.
Another favorite on her personal ?Top Three? is design work.
?I love to break up space...My most relaxing, enjoyable work is literally breaking up space in a desirable way, an intriguing way. The person looks at it and finds himself trying to work through it.?
?I love to do what I call conceptual work, understanding i the human mind. I like to put across some particular emotion, some particular theme that is inherent in the human mind.?
Not all her conceptual work is that complex. Her most recent piece is a pink neon tube bent into the abstract form of a rabbit. It is taken from a model Carter made of bent wire. The message in this one is simply ?rabbit.?
?I didn?t want to make an exact rabbit. I just wanted to get the feeling of the rabbit, to create the illusion and the image using very few lines.?
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