Roslein

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These may or may not be true, but these are the whispers that follow her.

• Some say that Ros stole her final show idea for her B.F.A. show. Another young woman also put out a show that was very similar a month later. When asked, Ros has continued to maintain all art is derivative.
  
• Wilhelm left her a sizable fortune, that much is fact, but there are some that say she hasn't spent a dime of it.
  
• She might well be the estranged daughter of former German supermodel Claudia Weiss and business mogul Aries Sterling. She looks quite like her, even twenty years since the young woman winked out of the public eye.
  
• A whisper around her colleagues is that she is desperate to move out of secondary into post secondary despite teaching some of the best up-and-coming artists.
  
• She hooked up with a former student, though several years after he had graduated.

Röslein Koch acts as though she came from nowhere as a fully grown young adult. Her life before her first marriage to Jason Lacroix has been all but forgotten. She married him days after turning eighteen and used his money to get her through her Bachelor of Fine Arts, done over two years, barely sleeping as she took extra classes where she could and packing her summers with as much work as humanly possible.

Lacroix likely knew she was not going to stick around, but he took the divorce badly. He pitched a fit and made sure she did not get any more money from him. That seemed to suit her just fine; she moved to Germany and applied to do her Master of Fine Arts there while taking correspondence courses toward her teaching certificate. she married again, soon after landing in Germany.

Wilhelm Koch was three times her age and happy to play sugar daddy to the artist. He was a big support to her and even though everyone knew she was after his money - and temporarily most likely - she did seem to love him in her way.

She left for her teaching practicum in the US and she chose to do another US art show, but she never returned to Germany. Her second divorce was quiet and when Wilhelm passed, she was named in his will to get nearly everything; he left no children and was an only child himself.

Ros subbed her way through her the rest of her twenties, landing a full-time job teaching when she turned 31; she eventually moved to work herself into the head of the VA department at an arts school in Bramford.

Currently, she is unemployed and working at helping her younger brother get his GED while she recaptures her love of painting.

She fell into a hole of drinking for a month or so but is working toward cleaning herself up. She is the only one who can say enough is enough and finally she sees that she is responsible for her actions.

Ros works mostly in paint, though she has recently picked up analog photography as both a hobby and a passion. She wants nothing more than to get her foot back in the door.

She has always used the human body as a canvas, but she also likes using recycled, upcycled and downcycled materials.

A powerhouse of mixed media and performance art, Roslein Koch has always blurred the lines between mediums. Even during her early days, she mixed paint, photography, and performance art in her Endless Time exhibit where she painted thirty-two women over the course of the seven day exhibit, only sleeping when absolutely necessary. From there she continued to explore the human body in new and different ways through collaborations with many artists over the years. Her greatest personal accomplishment, however, is her work with unusual canvasses as a vehicle for paint. So far she has openly used the human body, recycled plastic, old televisions and recycled artwork found in thrift stores. This is best highlighted in her show 'Waist' where she painted a series of body positivity posters on diet food wrappers and bottles. This year she plans to unveil a new art show that is rumoured to be called 'Time After Time'