Artist Statement
19 Apr 2011 Leave a Comment
To me, art has always been the unexpected; each piece of art creates a new discovery in my passion for art and life. Art gives me a happiness that nothing in this world can; it relaxes me and when the pen or paintbrush hits paper I am in a different world. Although, at this point in my life majoring in the Fine Arts(Drawing) I am always doubting myself as an artist. Should I really be labeled as an artist? I’ve spent years and hours pondering if my art is really good enough for the art world. Will I be wasting my life away trying to be the artist I believe myself to be?
Like a quite pounding truth my heart tells me to keep pressing on one day you will make something beautiful. “Alis Volat Propriis” is a tattoo forever ingrained into my upper back it means she flies by her own wings. And above it; wings that I have created myself. It encompasses a whole lot. To me it means although I may doubt myself as an artist and in life I should believe that I am an independent woman artist who could do anything I can take flight.
Now in a lot of my art pieces I feel like a lot of my pieces are playful and lively in nature. I am a girly girl I guess you can say I like to paint and draw flowers perfumes and dogs. My work expresses a peacefulness and I hope to make my viewers feel that warmth and peace and to take that with you as you go about your day.
The project I am currently working on is in Adobe Illustrator which I have never used before; actually I haven’t used much in the digital world. That said, Illustrator was my favorite and I am glad I went in with a strong idea of what I wanted to do. It is a piece about domestic violence and how it hurts everyone not just woman not just men…everyone.
In doing this project I explored painting on Illustrator and whether I should do it by hand or go to the setting called live trace which would create a different color for every different shade within the picture, I could control how many colors were with the piece. I decided to go with the live trace with both the woman and the bloody handprint above it. The live trace gave a look of being fragility and hurt to the piece. The exploration of Illustrator was exhilarating it proved any doubts I had, because photoshop did not prove to be as fun as I thought it would be.
The reason I chose to do domestic violence was that a lot of my friends have gotten hit by someone very close to them, and usually someone totally unexpected. In my experience it always involved alcohol and it wasn’t just them who were hurt friends were hurt and lost over what had happened. It’s not something that should be tolerated and I want this piece to evoke an emotion to get you to act upon this. To never let domestic abuse happen and never give an excuse for why it happened stand up for what is right.
All in all I want my art to prove that it is limitless and that it can inspire people to discover their own freedom in their art.
Ideas for animation:
24 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment
1. One idea we had was to go to the park and have someone on top of a ladder. The person on the ladder, jumps off and tries to land on another person. When they touch they both explode and turn into confetti. All this would need to be edited together to remove the protective cushion under the ladder, and replace the two figures with confetti.
2. Another idea would be to super impose a face onto a soccer ball and in slow motion have another figure kicking the ball. This would show the reaction on the face of the ball.
3. Those things at parties where you blow into them and the little paper extends outward kinda thing, except when the figure blows into it, it doesn’t work, the paper portions extend out of the ears of the figure. Surprise!! And also trying to maybe use other iterations of this idea.
4. Another idea we discussed is having someone stomp on an orange and then after it is thoroughly pulverized, have the bits of orange reanimate and start to take over the leg that did the stomping.
5. Looking in the mirror looking tired and messing with your hair and pulling down your eyelid and grab your eyeball, the suddenly freak out and watch the process of trying to get it back and putting oneself back together.
Animated Videos that Caught our interest
24 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment
Game over by Pez
Michael Gondry
