This article appeared in Ballad Of, a London-based publication featuring emerging artists.

In Today’s Brand New Art We Heart, Elizabeth Schoettle takes us on a trip into the wonderful world of Phoebe New York. Elizabeth, who often goes by the name of Libby, is a New York City-based artist who uses found objects to create evocative scenes and scenarios for her alter-ego character, Phoebe. Using objects such as old book covers, picture frames, Polaroids, and other elements that convey either nostalgia or up-to-the-minute modernity (and sometimes both), Libby speaks through Phoebe to express her feelings about love, loneliness, courage, vanity, joy, rejection, and basically anything else a person can feel.

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