I use the historic and ecological memories of place to prompt sequential reimagining. On-site experimental animation, ceramic reliefs, drawing, and publications are methods to generate narratives about the uncultivated, overlooked moments of the post-industrial landscape. I think about how I can riff on the structures of various storytelling formats like books, comics, and animation. These time-based methods often use repetition. Repetitive processes initiate linear and nonlinear narratives. Much of the built environment prioritizes repetition and efficiency. In my work, I inefficiently rebuild ubiquitous forms from the unscenic built environment. When I re-make things I see on my highway drives, forms like scaffolding become irregular and asymmetrical through my hand. 

In St. Louis, I co-organize Reverb, a curatorial space in a WWII-era concrete bunker. I was the 2021-2022 Creative Fellow at Providence Public Library, a 2021 resident artist at the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation in Rockland, Maine, and a member at the collectively run library and publishing studio, Queer.Archive.Work in Providence, RI. I worked as Project Coordinator for Counterpublic 2023, a triennial in St. Louis, MO that weaves contemporary art into civic infrastructure. In 2024, I participated in Trojan Horse Summer School in Bengtsår, Finland. My work has been shown in St. Louis, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maine.

I am a 2025 MFA candidate at Washington University in St. Louis, and received my BA in Studio Art and Psychology from Knox College in 2016.

carmenribaudo(at)gmail(dot)com