When you are growing up, the world often shapes around you in different ways. Perhaps you were a knight with a sword, however, the sword was a stick you found outside. Maybe you were a sea princess that swam in the cold waters of the local outdoor pool in your community, during a hot summer day. However, these memories permanently impact you and shape you into who you were today. The ways you shaped reality when you are younger, shape you into who you are. and going back to those roots can help you learn more about yourself. Adding to my sustained investigation about my self-discovery. When I was growing up, my mother had these dancer-clown type of dolls. And once I found another one from a store, I saw myself discovering the happiness of that time. This piece is about imagination, yet one thing was true, imagination is an abstract thought of the human mind. The clown sits down in the center-right of the piece, representing happiness as clowns are supposed to make people happy. With a hand reaching forward to grab the doll within the overgrowth of plants that held the clown away. A key is hidden within the piece that serves as a key to the world of imagination that once was lost when someone grew up. Finding the key can help you open up the world you once lost, and discover the things you once found happiness in. The piece itself is truly the abstract thought and is opened to be an interruption of the viewer. However, only the artist holds the key to the true meaning, and their own world they made within the fibers of the page itself. So what is my sustained investigation about? My sustained investigation is about my journey of self-discovery, with the paths I take throughout my life to learn who is Leigh? .
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Although my piece is not totally done or sprayed, my ideas of the piece is a self-portrait with me looking into a book which would be labeled about different cultures/folk tales. I wanted to add two elements from my stories (The first piece about the angel sheep and The Old Lady Who Lives In A Shoe.) I will be adding water color to emphasized the figures- the glasses of the shoe, books, brain. The brain itself represents a book that adsorbed the interruption and my visual snow/ eye issues with living messy textures for the eyes. The background it of course. is messy. Representing the background absorbing into the brain book.
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"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children she didn't know what to do." Taking this information I made a silhouette of an old woman who has a shoe for a head, keeping with the messy style for a background to become a fake wallpaper; I used different mediums(graphite, and charcoal) To show different in shading and the different textures(dress/scrawl to have variety) Besides this I really like this piece, along having confidence because my friend, Nati wants to have a print of this piece. My next piece concludes with the idea of a self-portrait using books. The elements of the previous folk tales, that connects to my essential question of self-discovery on my hidden past. November 8th, 2019
When it comes to my first three pieces, I found myself going back to a rough- organized chaotic way of expressing different themes. Yet, I would say I know my art style; I know that throughout this journey of stress and discovery of self and history; my style will always change. Whether some keys will stay the same, is really up towards whatever my future self is planning; what is my next goal to reach? Is it expressing myself- or it merely for others to see? Or is it about taking care of the thoughts that seem to always enter in my head? With this when someone asks me to list my strengths and weakness, I find myself wondering about what they mean- since everyone seemed to view these topics differently(no one sees art the same way.) But what I do know; my painting is not at the level I wished, nor is my pencils- since the overview of my ideas are completely overrun by my abilities, perhaps these feelings stayed the same- from constant judgement from not only my fellow classmates in middle school, and elementary, but the want to show the rest of the artists in my family that I am equally as good- without a price being put onto whatever I show. Showing what art means to me. So what do I want to improve on? Matching my ideas to my skills; Like the advisory from R.I.T said; "Make my art meet my extreme visuals in your mind." |
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