HEAD:
For this assignment, we were tasked to make four different pieces of art, two of them "Head" pieces and two of them "Heart" pieces. Our "Head" pieces were supposed to link back to a common theme that we have noticed among out "play pages" and works of art that we have created I class. My art work, I had noticed, seemed to focus around depression, pain, and trying to fight against it (which I typically symbolized with butterflies and moths). I am not a sculptor, and unfortunately one of our works had to be in 3 dimensions, so I focused on that one first. I am a tad bit morbid in my artwork and my mind so immediately I thought of a knife dipped in red paint to create the imagery of blood, but that was a tad too simple, so I expanded instead on one of the works I used to apply to skip Art II. The former work was of forearms and in them was carved something along the lines of "just kill yourself already," but overtop of the cuts were bandaid that had some inspirational saying on it. I stuck with the bandaid idea and covered the blade of a knife with bandaid rendering this deadly weapon basically useless. This is where the title came from. It is a Fault in the Stars reference(Gus's unlit cigarette). I have somewhat of a bloodlust so of course I dipped in red paint. Next I moved onto my other piece: Forearm Violin. I wanted it to be along the same lines(ie dealing with self harm).So then I thought of a female sitting against a wall with her head lookin up, a tear streaming down her face and having lots of red cuts on her arm with a discarded razor blade on the floor. I really like water color as a medium and I thought it would work the best with this one because I thought it would be most expressive in making the eyes red and would work best in layerings the scars on her arm and having some look faded. Also I'm not going to bring my sculpture into school because it is is knife and I'm not an idiot. I think I was pushing it with the noose, but at giant kitchen knife is a bit too far. When displaying the knife I think I want to tie fishing line around its handle and suspend it so that the blade is pointing down.
HEART:
For the "Heart" component of this project we were supposed to draw inspiration from subjects and or media/processes that we were drawn to. With my first work "God Hates Figs" I decided to combine two of my favorite subjects: fruit and the gays, specifically gay women. How might these two connect you might ask? Well, to the ancient Romans the fig was to women as a banana or a grapefruit is to a man. The presence of two of them hints at its homosexual nature. Also the title is a slogan that the LGBTQ+ community has taken an altered from hateful religious groups, and then used as a clap back because it references a Bible passage where Jesus cursed a fig tree that is problematic in the religious community because of its absurdity.
My second piece was originally intended to be a portrait my sister because I enjoy painting faces and I wanted to try to challenge myself by painting her hair. My sketch underneath the paint was not very good and didn't look enough like her for my liking so I got frustrated and ended up just painting over the whole canvas in red. Then I started building up the shape of her face with my paint. It doesn't look like my sister, so I am departing from her as my subject and saying it is just some random person who's coloring is similar to hers. I used that idea to create the title "Definitely Not Callie."
My second piece was originally intended to be a portrait my sister because I enjoy painting faces and I wanted to try to challenge myself by painting her hair. My sketch underneath the paint was not very good and didn't look enough like her for my liking so I got frustrated and ended up just painting over the whole canvas in red. Then I started building up the shape of her face with my paint. It doesn't look like my sister, so I am departing from her as my subject and saying it is just some random person who's coloring is similar to hers. I used that idea to create the title "Definitely Not Callie."