Window to the World
Medium: Vellum, acrylic paint, water colour paper
Size: 27x20"
Date: 2014
Size: 27x20"
Date: 2014
iBloom
Medium: Wood, paint, plexiglass, digital print
Size: 4x2'
Date: 2014
Size: 4x2'
Date: 2014
Memorial of Efflorescence
Medium: Wire, Styrofoam, and miscellaneous paper
Dimensions: 3D sculptures
Date: 2014
Dimensions: 3D sculptures
Date: 2014
Exhibition Artist Statement: Through my artistic process of drawing and painting, I would like to express my concerns about our loss of connection with the natural world. Rather than to imagine - we search, rather than to see - we capture, rather than to listen - we explain. These notions are all ideas in which technology has effected the way we create and experience the world around us. Technology, in the forms of cellphones, social media, and cameras, have come between our experience with the environment as a type of 'window' or filter to which it can be enjoyed.
My work will emphasize particular aspects the natural world which I find beautiful and am drawn towards; the colours, textures, and forms in particular. Sensory engagement is important in my work because through technology, sight, sound, smell, or touch can be altered or diminished entirely from a person's experience. I wish to reconnect to those senses. My work expresses a continual narrative between technology and its human interaction. I believe that to see the beauty in the natural world we must observe, reflect, and appreciate it with our own eyes, our own senses, and in our own place in time. |
B.F.A. Graduate Class of 2014 |