Wrapped Human Body

Artist Statement

The theme I focused on was loss. I wanted to capture that feeling of someone being there, but not at the same time. Like a ghost. Being trapped in your bubble from losing what’s close to you. That’s why I used tracing paper since that transparency would reinforce that concept of loss. Being able to see a figure but still can’t see from the blur.  Making it into an envelop shape, I covered the whole body but let the arms exposed. I did this to show that the person is still there. The arms breaking the illusion. Lighting was the most important to think about while looking for a spot. I need an area that had enough sunlight but also was empty for that isolation. The sunlight would help show the silhouette underneath the paper. My friend and I went to our mall, where one side of the building is abandoned from the rest. I had her stand on the arrow and took my pictures far away. Having the first picture be taken far away sinks in the empty parking lot with the model. Getting closer helps to see what the figure looks like with the transparent paper. The final image has parallels between the arrow and the shadow. It creates a contrast between the two where in the middle, there’s the blurred figure.

Dinner and a Movie

Artist Statement 

The movie that I chose was Song of the Sea for my dinner set up. The premise is about two kids discovering one of them is a selkie and goes on an adventure to save other Celtic beings. What I wanted to mainly focus on is the selkie aspect. The story is when a woman puts on her seal coat, she turns into a seal, and return to the sea. That certain mythical creature is the main drive of the movie as the kids learn from a past they didn’t know. In the dinner scenario, the background is fur to represent the coat of the selkie. Within the fur, there are seashells hidden within. You have to look closely in order to find them. Following with the theme of secrets, the wooden box represents a chest of the coat that was kept hidden in the movie. The key on top is literally and figuratively the key to unlocking the past. The rope that leads from it to the bottom is the tie that keeps the past and presents connected. The three plates relate to the ocean, the bundled up rope coming from fishing boats, the rocks you find at the breach, and seashells roped tightly with the rope. The blue plate in the middle goes with the color theme of the movie that mainly has cool colors.

Dinner and a Movie

 

Movie and a dinner

 

Wrapped Human Body

 

Wrapped Figure

 

Touch

 

Pain

8.5x8

Paper and Ink

"So in a sense, pain really is a sign that we're out of harmony with Nature. When we're in pain the localized place hurts but the entire body responds." -Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of Senses, pg 107

Statement: The passage talks about how pain means we're out of harmony. With the drawing, I wanted to make the clear point where the pain is with creating lines around the hand. But ripped the paper to create that imbalance. It shows how much pain can alter our body from the biggest or tiniest reactions.

The Inner Climate

500x500mm

Digital Drawing

"For millennia we've relied on our warm-bloodedness as a life-force; we prize caring, compassionate people by referring to their warmth. And here is a monster homing in on that warmth. Our essence is our undoing says the message of these sensory frightmares." -Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of Senses, pg 91

Statement: I wanted to make the person look like thermal radar with the body heat signature. Creating a life force surrounding them as a monster tries to reach or get to it. Being attracted to the warmth like a moth to a flame. I wanted to make the person and warmth be approachable, blending the colors together like a painting. As I make the monster more sketchy like, rough and crisp to create that contrast between the two.