To make art is to express vision, feeling, opinion and viewpoint. My art is very wrapped up in human identity, and trying to convey how we identify ourselves and others. The individual in relationship to life experience, social constructs, and self-image completely fascinate me and fuel my work.
Through photography, I typically shoot female models in a confined psychological space, always solo and vulnerable in one way or another. I aim to express female identity and psychological distress as a result of our societal pressures. This work also ties into performance pieces of a similar nature, exploring the ideas of sexuality, gender identification, and social expectation. Other areas explored through photography include the relationship between identity and family/childhood identity.
Through sculpture, I express similar ideas of psychological distress related to sexuality and identity. My sculpture work typically contains found objects and other non-traditional material, including human hair, nylon, trash, etc. Another aspect I am incorporating into my latest sculpture work is sound.
In the future, I plan to explore sound and performance as well as installation pieces to further explore identity and psychological spaces through art.
This is great and to the point. The way you related your art to your concept works well. I would say add a little more about yourself in the statement.
ReplyDeleteI wondered what caused you to begin exploring this particular subject. And I think that it is the sort of mystery that intrigues me. I would really like to see some of your work. Working with venerable women as a subject could mean so many things so this is also a most interesting to me. The only thing that distracts my attention it the separation in the last paragraph. It would be a smoother read if they were connected together.
ReplyDeleteI like your introduction and connection of phycologicalness in both regular art and in your art, I feel that it is important to have your own definition to art to be able to produce good art, and I find it helpful if I was going into your work with out knowing you to know your definition of art right off the bat.
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