Christiane Drieling
"Change the Story," mixed media: back of a book hardcover, library pocket, watercolor, ink, storybook clippings.
In Ruston collage artist Christiane Drieling’s work, “Change the Story,” she imagines that the mouse—a character in the children’s story, The Rooster, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen, has decided to leap from the page—to escape from the same old story. “There’s an ocean of possibilities,” writes Drieling. “Let’s dive in.”
In this month’s issue, we are celebrating the vital artifact that is “the story,” and all its possibilities, as told through the mediums of literature and film here in the Gulf South. From documentaries about New Orleans—its bohemian artists and its rap legacies—to poetry written by the incarcerated and dystopian feminist fables about dying seagulls: we’re telling stories about stories this month, but especially about storytellers.
Read our feature on Christiane Drieling and her work from our November 2020 issue, and see more of her collages at christianedrieling.com.
