About Me
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I am a Maggie Walker senior currently enrolled in Art V, and my house is never quiet because of my three siblings who seemed convinced they need to shout at each other when they are two feet apart. I am low-key addicted to Netflix, I am a rower, and I love to read, but have found that(reading) to be difficult with my hectic schedule. This website is where I am going to be keeping a record of my artwork, and, in some aspects, my life.
By the way, if anyone is curious as to why I only work from Art I, III, IV, and V in my gallery, it is because I skipped Art II.
Artist Statement |
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My work is a love letter to NBC’s Hannibal. The axiomatic stench of beautiful violence, the more subtle flavors of queerness, the disembodied arms, the wine, the knives, empowered women. The epitome of my love letter is born sick. It exemplifies how the regal elegance of the show obscures and distracts from the darker details: the show, with the regal elegance obscuring hiding and distracting from the darker details: the emptiness in the figure, the necklace of rope, the blood in the goblet, only to be revealed by closer inspection. And distracting from the inherent queerness of the show.
Every single piece I make is inspired in part by the glorious mess that is Hannibal. The mask series was inspired by Dr. Du Maurier’s conversation with Hannibal where she made the brilliantly accurate observation that Lecter is wearing metaphorical “people suits” in order to hide his true self from the (rightfully) unaccepting world. The motif of fungus was imbued into my work in reference to the connections of Eldon Stammets’s deluded mind. The slow devolution of my work into darker themes, both visually and metaphorically, followed the show's own narration of Will’s downfall. The violets symbolize the softer, sapphic qualities of the show, thank you, Alana and Margot. The triangle and lambda tattoos symbolizing the pain of suppressed homosexuality and yet the beauty that comes from of proclaiming who you are. Mariposa, the Spanish word for butterfly, is slang in some Spanish-speaking countries for a gay person, hence the inclusion of my butterfly motif, further cementing the underlying homosexual tendencies of both my work and Hannibal.
Every single piece I make is inspired in part by the glorious mess that is Hannibal. The mask series was inspired by Dr. Du Maurier’s conversation with Hannibal where she made the brilliantly accurate observation that Lecter is wearing metaphorical “people suits” in order to hide his true self from the (rightfully) unaccepting world. The motif of fungus was imbued into my work in reference to the connections of Eldon Stammets’s deluded mind. The slow devolution of my work into darker themes, both visually and metaphorically, followed the show's own narration of Will’s downfall. The violets symbolize the softer, sapphic qualities of the show, thank you, Alana and Margot. The triangle and lambda tattoos symbolizing the pain of suppressed homosexuality and yet the beauty that comes from of proclaiming who you are. Mariposa, the Spanish word for butterfly, is slang in some Spanish-speaking countries for a gay person, hence the inclusion of my butterfly motif, further cementing the underlying homosexual tendencies of both my work and Hannibal.
