This tryptic is where my inspiration for my thesis work began. I created these three pieces from a self-portrait poem; visually illustrating and highlighting certain parts of the poem. I am continuing to do this with my thesis work.
Course Description
This interdisciplinary fine arts course results in the development of a body of work around contemporary art topics. Research, concept development and studio practice will combine to broaden your skills and ideas. Stimulating assignments together with experimentation promote analysis and understanding of contemporary art ideas, world cultures and historical periods, and other areas of visual information. Studio production and the communication of concepts visually, verbally and in written form will be combined in this thought-provoking course
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Metaphors
This tryptic is where my inspiration for my thesis work began. I created these three pieces from a self-portrait poem; visually illustrating and highlighting certain parts of the poem. I am continuing to do this with my thesis work.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Bark and Rocks
Female Identity
Patterns can be used as disguises. The functions of disguises can turn you into something you are not or enhance someone you are. In my artwork there are places that both conceal and reveal what is happening. In this series I use silhouettes of the female figure and mask them with collaged flowers and birds. I feel that it is obvious that these are female figures, but their identities are more of a mystery than their genders. The faces themselves are vacant and without features to erase race and ethnicity making the focus on the gender as a whole. The mythology of women is something I am interested in and I am trying to illustrate here. Overall these images act as questions of identity, but mainly they are questions of female identity. I am wondering now if they are too 'pretty' and if that is a negative thing in contemporary art?
Sublime Identity
Sublime
A (1): to elevate or exalt especially in dignity or honor (2): to render finer (as in purity or excellence)
B: to convert (something inferior) into something of higher worth
In aesthetics, the sublime is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic.
I believe that female identity is sublime. It should be looked at with reverence and care. Identity can be taken and converted or rendered finer.
This body of work is a representation based on my personal identity. Personal references are in the material used, old hymnal sheet music and pages from old German and English bibles. I used these papers to create pieces of “Body Art” that can been seen as a physical make up of my identity. The work has and will continue to grow out of my own identity but take on possible identities of female of today. The work speaks to the idea of identity being something that one can take on and off, and it can enhance or disguise whom the subject is.