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= Rebecca Duncan = Rebecca Duncan is an American contemporary sculpture artist. She currently resides and owns a studio in Brooklyn, NYC. Most of her work is memory-based, and deals with concepts like childhood trauma, mental illness, and toxic femininity. While she usually challenges these concepts in the three-dimensional form, she considers herself interdisciplinary, and has been known to combine sculpture with fiber, painting, drawing, printmaking, and digital arts.

Early Life
Duncan was born in Sandersville, GA on May 16, 1997. She has stated that she was raised Christian, as a Southern Baptist. Although she was very interested in art as a child, she did not decide to pursue it as a career until she was 17 years old. At the age of 21, she obtained her BFA in sculpture at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL.

Career
In 2017, she was given a one month solo exhibit, entitled "domesticities" in the Student Hall Gallery of Florida Gateway College. In 2018, she presented works of art in several different showcases, including the Harn Museum, Art Basel, NOMA, and the High Museum of Art. Some of the pieces included "Mother Magdelene," "The Kitchen Mat," and "BEND OVER." She was also featured in several different magazine articles and made a few appearances on late night shows, as the fine arts were making a fresh appearance in pop culture. By 2019, she was invited to attend the Met Gala. After this, her work greatly diminished, as Duncan reported to be "uninspired" and going through some rough patches in her creativity. She did not resurface until early 2021 when she was offered a one-woman show in the PAMM.

Personal Life
According to sources, Duncan was inspired to be an artist by a woman named Janis Brothers, another artist who exhibited work all over the state of Florida. Brothers taught a studio class on Mosaics at the aforementioned FGC, and it is believed to have been Duncan's first official class in the fine arts. It is also said Brothers continued to educate Duncan until she applied for her Bachelors, encouraging her to display her talent by entering juried shows and building her professional portfolio.

Death and Conspiracy
On February 10, 2021, Duncan was spotted on a road trip to Miami to set up a show at the PAMM. Several eyewitnesses saw her enter a a Shell gas station in Port St. Lucie, pay $20 in cash for gas, and walk back out. This was the last time she is believed to have been seen before her disappearance. Authorities were alerted a few days after when she didn't arrive to install the rest of her art for her show's opening. On February 25, 2021, Duncan's car was found abandoned on the side of the road in Jupiter, FL. Two weeks later, she was assumed to be dead and a funeral was held in her honor - but no body was ever found.

Many fans of Duncan's work believe that she faked her own death and is currently living under an alternate identity. Some of these beliefs were established due to the way her car was found. Duncan's keys were left in the driver's seat, and when the car was turned on, Radiohead's How To Disappear Completely began to play from a burnt CD. Also, a copy of The Perks of Being a Wallflower was found with her art and sketchbook in the trunk, with a bookmark on a particularly underlined page. Lastly, her final piece of art was an unfinished clay self-portrait. Fans hope that the artist will someday return to finish it.

After a thorough investigation of the crime scene, Duncan's loved ones opted for leaving the car virtually untouched in the spot it had been abandoned as memorial and resting place for the artist's spirit. Private tours of the scene are conducted daily where fans can take photos and look through the artist's belongings to speculate about her presumed final days. The memorial was recently vandalized via theft - and is now kept under heavier surveillance.