Eat until Empty

The piece is a reflection on the emotional toll that comes from dissatisfaction. From a certain perspective, the toast seems to be fulfilling, due to the landscape within the background of the piece. The reality, is that the toast has nothing on it at all, and therefore will fulfill none of the hopeful goals. Thus, this constant hunger will never be satisfied.

The irony that came from the process of making this piece, is the dissatisfaction I felt when I was finished the pencil portion of the work. Without the additional pink aspects, it felt incomplete and lacking in meaning. I incorporated the pink to push the piece away from realism and towards surrealism. This in turn, will guide the viewer to the understanding that the piece is not as simple as it seems, and there is an underlying message to be interpreted.

Build-A-Girl

Completed November 2022

This piece is a self portrait, made up of the portraits of other woman. It reflects on how the women surrounding me growing up, hold heavy influence on who I am today.

The piece took a lot of critical thinking on which aspects of each portrait should be used to create the bigger picture. I decided to keep the shade and depth of the bigger image, while only keeping key details of the smaller faces intact. I decided to neglect texture, in order to ensure both the smaller and large portraits would remain visibly digestible.

Silent Swimmer

Completed January 2023

The piece visually represents the beauty in silence. Despite the fact that they don’t have a brain, Jellyfish are still considered living organisms. Jellyfish simply exist in the vast ocean of big and small fish, without a single thought in their head. The night-light reflects on the beauty of silence, the thoughtlessness, and peacefulness, to be left alone, like a Jellyfish.

The piece uses a glass fishbowl to hold the string of lights, which are then covered by yarn, which allows some, but not all, light to pass through. In order to have the lights stay within the fishbowl, I added crisscrossed yarn and rope, to allow some strings to flow out the bottom, but still have majority of the light source coming from the bowl itself. I also added yarn and ribbon, to flow out the bottom, to add diverse textures to make for a more visually complex piece.