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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