Artist statement
Identify the questions or inquiry that guided your sustained investigation.
How can I create paintings that explore how our external environment affects our internal monologue? Through collaged imagery, can I convey how society's standards and norms influence our perception of ourselves? How can I use my artistic voice to portray how my defining moments in my life personally impacted the way in which I view myself and the world around me?
Describe how your sustained investigation shows evidence of practice, experimentation, and revision guided by your questions or inquiry.
My sustained investigations show evidence of practice through use of different medias such as oil, acrylic, and colored pencil. By exploring the same subjects of people, technology, and nature in multiple pieces I demonstrate the ways that societal norms impact or even separate us from nature and who we were before the influence of our modern world. In numerous pieces, I use color, texture, and value to visually convey an invisible relationship that I have with the world. By focusing on different relationships and conflicts in my life, I reveal how I see the world through my own perspective and personal lens. In piece 1 I create balance between the subject's internal thoughts and external environment by contrasting color and medias to represent how one's own self-perception influences their image. In numerous pieces I practiced and revised the way I drew hands as I analyzed the areas in my life that I hold control over, or that others have influenced. By creating dichotomies between different scenes within the same composition such as in pieces 2, 3, 8, and 6, I portrayed the ways in which the different moments of one's life create the way in which they see the world.