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Sandbox Exercises:
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 * In Mary Reid Kelley's 2019 collection, she explores the 1895 painting Rape of Europa.

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Life
During her time at Yale, Reid Kelley enjoyed searching through the library archives, inspiring various video works. In her research, she discovered untold stories, particularly surrounding women, during wartime eras. This research, in turn, influence Reid Kelley to bring awareness to women's stories.

The Queen's English (2008)
The Queen's English (2008) follows a struggling nurse caring for a dying soldier. Reid Kelley plays with language to embody metaphors and euphemisms to convey the complex feelings of loss and war.

Sadie, the Saddest Sadist (2009)
Sadie, the Saddest Sadist (2009) follows Sadie and a sailor, Jack, in a narrative regarding infatuation and infection. Reid Kelley uses pun and rhyme to move along the story of viral repression.

You Make Me Iliad (2010)
The work is shot in black and white and combines stop-motion animation with live performance and poetry. The scene between characters is dramatic with an undertone of mockery.

Working Objects and Videos (2014)
Working Objects and Videos was an exhibit showcased at the University Art Museum and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. The exhibit includes character drawings and working objects for each of Reid Kelley's videos: You Make Me Iliad (2010), The Syphilis of Sisyphus (2011), and Priapus Agonistes (2013). Various objects are included such as costumes, masks, accessories, background and character drawings, and props.

The Thong of Dionysus (2015)
The Thong of Dionysus (2015) is a 9 1/2 minute video. The video stars Dionysus, portrayed by Reid Kelley, who speaks to the audience in verse with variable meter and rhyme. With themes of forgetting, letting go, and redemption, Reid Kelley embodies the mythology that inspired the video.

We are Ghosts (2017)
This is Offal was inspired Thomas Hood's poem The Bridge of Sighs, retelling a tale of a woman who committed suicide from the perspective of her internal organs bickering with each other on a dissecting table. In The Body of The Sturgeon reinvents Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem The Song of Hiawatha through the hardships of a young submarine crew in the closing moments of the war.