Senior Thesis Statement.
This is to hang on the gallery wall with my 6 thesis paintings. Feel free to comment. If you are in Winston-Salem, then the Show is Friday from 6PM to 8PM. Feel free to stop in and see the show, and enjoy the reseption, if you can't make it Friday do know that, the show will hang from Friday, May 6th to Saturday, May 21st.
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Self-Discovery
I have found that I use text and paint in order to express my political feelings, as well as my relationships with others. Inevitably through this process, I create a portrait of myself. Some of these paintings are joyful and hopeful, while others have qualities that reflect wounds or bruises. All of these qualities reflect the many different ways I am able to portray myself. I have relationships and symbols that correspond to my paintings, and to which part of me is expressed here. Today I may feel much like Self, joyful, layered, hiding; but hopeful all the same. Tomorrow might be a day of the fresh pain of Unsent Letter or the old beaten pain of X*.
I could have attempted these creations on the computer. However when I began to try and explain the ambiguity of relationships as well as my emotions, I began to feel overly controlled and extremely confined by the computer. However, the spontaneity of the paint mixed with the semi-controlled nature of the transferred text, explained the imperfection and fluidity of relationships more precisely. I also began noticing that I would start a piece and not be completely sure where it will end up; this parallels life a great deal.
I feel that X* has the most serious tone. The darkness and depth comes from the veils that cover all the things we are told not to do at some point in this life we live. Paint was poured to be mindful of how that trust melted away from myself, as well as tears that have poured from painful experiences. This painting is about things I have been told not to do in my life and the amount of pain I have suffered from others attempts to control me.
Getting to a point where I could truly put my heart and soul into a painting was a difficult journey, one that took a great deal of self-discovery and soul searching. All of the paintings I have presented here speak of relationships and experiences I have encountered in my life, although I feel through the simple text and color treatment they are generalized to relate to everyone. I often sense that everyone has similar hopes and fears, yet no one realizes that they are not the only one who feels a particular way. This is my way of reminding you we all have those fears, hopes, dreams, desires, and relationships.
* X= my square painting. Its title is the univeral symbol for no, the red circle with a slash across it. It is used on no smoking signs.
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Self-Discovery
I have found that I use text and paint in order to express my political feelings, as well as my relationships with others. Inevitably through this process, I create a portrait of myself. Some of these paintings are joyful and hopeful, while others have qualities that reflect wounds or bruises. All of these qualities reflect the many different ways I am able to portray myself. I have relationships and symbols that correspond to my paintings, and to which part of me is expressed here. Today I may feel much like Self, joyful, layered, hiding; but hopeful all the same. Tomorrow might be a day of the fresh pain of Unsent Letter or the old beaten pain of X*.
I could have attempted these creations on the computer. However when I began to try and explain the ambiguity of relationships as well as my emotions, I began to feel overly controlled and extremely confined by the computer. However, the spontaneity of the paint mixed with the semi-controlled nature of the transferred text, explained the imperfection and fluidity of relationships more precisely. I also began noticing that I would start a piece and not be completely sure where it will end up; this parallels life a great deal.
I feel that X* has the most serious tone. The darkness and depth comes from the veils that cover all the things we are told not to do at some point in this life we live. Paint was poured to be mindful of how that trust melted away from myself, as well as tears that have poured from painful experiences. This painting is about things I have been told not to do in my life and the amount of pain I have suffered from others attempts to control me.
Getting to a point where I could truly put my heart and soul into a painting was a difficult journey, one that took a great deal of self-discovery and soul searching. All of the paintings I have presented here speak of relationships and experiences I have encountered in my life, although I feel through the simple text and color treatment they are generalized to relate to everyone. I often sense that everyone has similar hopes and fears, yet no one realizes that they are not the only one who feels a particular way. This is my way of reminding you we all have those fears, hopes, dreams, desires, and relationships.
* X= my square painting. Its title is the univeral symbol for no, the red circle with a slash across it. It is used on no smoking signs.