October 2021
“Back in the Elam Library Redeye held the myth and collected hopes for the life of the ‘artist girl’. Whatever the alternative, grunge or art scene, we find our ourselves models in the record. Sharing Shelton’s desire to live as an artist, we lived by replicating her images of it. The artist’s selfportrait can, after all, affirm her purpose, place, even make her real.”
