RACHEL GANEY

B.F.A Graphic Design / Illustration Certificate

Rachel Ganey is an interdisciplinary artist earning a B.F.A in Graphic Design alongside a certificate in Illustration. With creation always having been innate, Rachel is drawn to using her art to challenge her skills. Factum / Mutatum is a 500 frame hand-drawn animation that smoothly fuses ordinary but opposite objects into one another. This idea was conceived without a specific message in mind; Rachel was simply interested in ending her time in university with a curious and technically impressive final piece. Yet, as the making process began, she realized how the urge to create such a piece could, in fact, be saying something to her. Therefore, Factum / Mutatum functions as a kind of ode to animation, putting the final product and the process on equal pedestals. Something, anything, cannot be complete without first being in process - we spend more time being complex, abstract, or unfinished than we spend being whole. And, as Rachel realizes through this work, we should find appreciation for this betweenness. After all, it takes an understanding of it in order to animate. For this reason, Rachel pairs the final animation with a graphic arrangement of its frames, bringing to light the majority of the work being ambiguous in subject.

“FACTUM / MUTATUM,” digital animation, 2025