Light & Shadow

Wood-workshop!! …forced to experiment with abstraction

More I-M-Perfectness……

The mask was created by plastering my own face – got pretty hard to breathe after a while!

Before I closed the cube off… those lights got replaced by red ones.

The lights are positioned exactly where the reflection of the viewer’s eyes would be had that area not been drilled to fit the lights in. They light the cube, but blind the viewer.

This is what it looks like from the outside once it’s lit up. It’s creepier in reality – my camera wasn’t able to capture all the light spilling out.

So to view the sculpture, the viewer sticks their head in to the mask & then the lights and audio get turned on. It would be nice if all of this could happen automatically but I have horrible luck with technology so this is how it is for now.

I-M-Perfect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1hSgprlEn8

 

The link above is to the audio which accompanies the sculpture below.

This cube is made out of mirrors facing inwards. The only way to view its inside is to look through the holes in the mask you see above.

 

This is what the mask looks like from the inside. So once viewers stick their heads in it, they see their reflections with the mask on inside the cube (the mask is wearing real make- up….. which I hope explains the messiness).

Cut-Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGYW4F3B_Yw

 The link above is to the video part of a video installation - there’s no way to post the installation part up as it’s supposed to happen live. This video was projected onto a life-size cut-out of a painted white, blindfolded person. As the figures in the video walked towards it, they were distorted to fit the size of the cut-out.

The picture below is of the DVD cover designed for the video.

The cut-out in the cover is the cut-out on which the video was projected (this cut-out was originally supposed to be a mannequin - but they're too expensive:()

Still-Life

Learning to use oil-paints

Body and nature

More Media Experimenting

Exploring surrealism

This piece explores a feminist theme – the role of women in society, especially in the 1960s when the feminist movement first started. The sculpture is given an exaggerated ideal “womanly” figure with a painted on face and with the head cut off to show how women are often looked at as nothing more than pretty objects without brains of their own. The figure is hiding a pencil behind her dress with one hand and holding a huge broom with the other, representing how women’s rights to education and thoughts are often cut off or hidden, and their roles as maids and housewives celebrated. The front of the dress is the colourful title page of a book, whereas the back of the dress is made up by the actual content of the book (a girl’s diary), which can be seen as a symbol of women needing to cover everything that they are behind a colourful pretense of pretty dresses and fake identities.

Experimenting with non-traditional mediums/techniques

 

Sugar, White-out, Plastic wrap, Stuffing, and Acrylics on Board - This artwork explores two very common and opposite eating disorders – Anorexia and Obesity. The ideal figure expected from a girl has been exaggerated and done in white-out to show how being pressured to not have an ounce of fat can start wiping away a person until there’s nothing left except some bones and a starved body. The doughnut circling the stomach is made out of plastic, stuffing and sugar. Its outline around the stomach makes the stomach look fat, but the doughnut hole circling the stomach can be seen as a symbol of the starving hole anorexics carve in their bodies, and many girls’ obsession with size ‘0’. The fast-food restaurant slogans carved into the board are added on top of the body, yet at the same time, they are also scratching into it, similar to the way fast food adds fat to you, but at the same time scratches away at your health and often you self-image. This piece is the result of wondering, how can one be healthy in a society where fat is banned, yet fake, fat food is popular?

Plexi Glass, Cotton, Marbles, Feathers, Potpourri, and Acrylics - This is a recording of my moods in different surroundings with data recorded for approximately three months. The three boxes represent the different environments I was in while recording my moods and the three mediums are the symbols of changing emotions, making up a comparison chart of my moods versus my surroundings.

Gum on board - inspired by a highschool nick-name

Spray paint on board – This artwork was done in pairs and I was in charge of doing the leafy parts. The idea behind the graffiti is to blend two different sides of the same issue and turn them into something beautiful and decorative, so that viewers from both sides can look at the artwork and not feel attacked by it. The issues it blends are urbanization versus wilderness taking over civilization. The shoe prints can be looked at as urban foot steps ruining our environment, and on the other hand, the leaves surrounding the faint foot steps can be viewed as obscuring civilization.

 

 

 

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