For my reflection project i chose to go in a different direction than the original idea of a reflective object or surface. The main reason for this is because i hate reflective objects and really wanted to start off with a project i would have the motivation to work with. I chose the theme of this piece following with the same concentration that i had used previously, just that strange kinda eerie feeling. I chose to do someone looking into a mirror with an identical person looking back upside down and with no iris'. I watched Donnie darko a few weeks back and found myself fascinated with the theory of alternate universes and with this fascination i also thought of the feeling you felt when you look in to the mirror and lose yourself in thought, you don't quite feel as yourself as you usually do, and the weird creepy ideas that go alongside with the multi-universe theory. I chose to do no iris because i thought it made more sense to think about the person existing within the mirror to be existing in the same form as the girl but not actually being the girl and felt that was a good way to represent that. as for the composition of the piece i chose to create the rippling effect of the girl touching the mirror to not only add to the story of it but to make sure the eye travel throughout the piece. the ornate frame added to the composition as well by creating a focus of the piece and clearly separating the mirror from the outside of the mirror. Mrs rossi gave me advice with the idea of creating a grey glow surrounding the mirror to add depth and it turned out to be one my favorite aspects of the piece. overall im really happy with it and glad i did something different but if i was to go back i would spend more time making the human structure more realistic and proportional.
My summer projects were something I really struggled with because I struggle with procrastination and am not one to pace myself. I started of putting a lot of work into my pieces and as the summer went on found myself struggling to create artwork that I liked because I felt like I was sort of in a rut. The two projects I liked the most were one of my mini concept pieces and my self portrait. I'm not one for painting so the self portrait turning out to be one of my favorite pieces really surprised me. I chose to do blue with a background because I wanted to express emotion with color more than expression because most of the times when I find myself upset it is not visible. As for my mini concept piece it started off as the multimedia project and flopped. I decided to paint over it doing random strokes with red and blue paint and seeing where it took me. The red and blue reminded me of veins and then an anatomical heart. I know the anatomical heart thing is a little over done but for some reason I felt like it correlated to a time in my life and the second hand made sense to me because if it was just one hand it would've been literally the most clichéd teenage girl art piece id ever made. To me it basically symbolized an internal conflict (which is obvious because that was the concentration) in which I regained a sense of myself from another person who had control of it and a release of power. As for the rest of my project the interior space and other concentration piece were last minute and i wasn't really proud of. The concentration idea was really something i wanted to do better on but didn't have time to. As for shoulderless sad boy in space i needed a mixed media piece and chose to do a portrait of my friend Maxwell who is probably one of the best people I've ever been acquainted with. It really does look like him but i wish i could've done a better background but as i said previously painting is not my thing. The last piece i did was this old photo Mckayla had of our friend Ashley. Mckayla basically trapped me in her room when we were all hanging out one day and made me do my last piece. I know it wasn't on the list of project ideas but it turned out better than any of the ones i did that were actually on the list and it took me forever. I did a watercolor portrait of her melting. I did a self portrait of myself like this but the melting wasn't as severe as i had intended it to be and her face expressing distress kind of added what my previous piece was missing. I know this kind of strange art freaks you out (Mrs. Rossi) but pieces that invoke a sense of anxiety are something I'm drawn to. The world is a very strange and foreign place and that's very often overlooked. I want my art to bring that to peoples attention when they look at it i want to invoke emotion and i feel as though fear and uneasiness are the only ones that haven't been played out and the ones i find most interesting. and that is why i make "scary" art and a general overview of my summer work.
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