This is an example of what I do if I am experiencing a ‘perceptual cramp”. I begin with a line that I scribble all over a blank sheet of paper. From there I see images from the lines and create other images. For example, from these specific lines I formed a lamp, duck, shoe, boat, and even a walking cave man!
I have only memories of my father as a child. They are mostly distant memories, and I can barely remember his face. Here, the same idea is explored. There are several ambiguous men, could they be my father? Even out of the womb I am vulnerable to the idea of coming from a mystery. I have drawn a golden, faceless man, also in a fetus position. He is unknown, just as my father. I have drawn myself grown, still in fetal position, with no direction of where I belong. Arms and legs missing from not being whole. The images are cramped together, just like the feelings I hold for my notion of home. I still struggle with this.
My only home is the ocean.
Here, there is an image of a sweatshirt, with nature flowing from its extremities. Once again, the idea of human vs. nature. Here, however, nature prevails, The gold touched leaves are a reminder that nature is our purest form of love. No matter what is done to it, it will not die – it is immortal. We will all fall and fade, just as this sweater, but nature will prevail and keep growing, no matter the ages.
By speaking out against waist and pollution through art, we communicate its horrific nature universally. Hopefully, we can make a difference.
This is made from recycled materials including newspaper, brown paper bags, and even thrown out paper. Notice that the handles of a paper bag are still visible. Because the individual pages are of separate recycled materials, they are not attached.
The image is of a lady, cramped and entangled. Her nude body is twisted and almost unrecognizable. Her limbs are made of vines, spewing from her wrists and nurturing her body. The dark black smudges represent industrialization and the suffocation it has caused on our environment. It magnifies the intensity of the entrapment and creates tension. The woman is faceless, covered with thick dark paint – oil. This juxtaposition of nature and humanity is a common theme within my book. I am visually quoting industrialization and the recent BP spill and its impact on mother earth.
Painting method: I’ve never really practiced water colors but I have really been enjoying playing with it on my own. This picture was just a free flowing painting, I didn’t have any real intention on where it was going to go. I just went with the flow.
Medium: Water color paint.
This page was special to me because I immediately saw the phrase “That Someone Keeping This Forever And (Ever)” It reminds me of all the memories, stories and secrets that will be with me and my close ones for a lifetime. I followed through with a little signature initial on the bottom and then a little flower embellishment.
This page really was meaningful for me. I started off wanting to write out the lyrics to my favorite song. This song appears a lot because it is really like a part of me. The process of stitching the yarn into brown paper was quite difficult and took a lot of time. But it was like a journey of life. The kite represents me in that pursuit, bouncing in the wind, experiencing different settings trying to find my final destination. I didn’t want to just end the yarn somewhere so at the very end of the page I kept feeding the yarn through eachother to create this sort of unknown entanglement, representing the future to come because I don’t know where I’m going to end up or how I am getting there.
Inspiration: Taken from the ideas of other artists and using yarn as an uncommon material used to express themselves and create art.
