Stephen He @stephenxhe - Tumblr Blog

Medusa's Coffin

Medusa's Coffin After Medusa was slain she never died completely. Zeus instead vaporized her into ashes, incase her power becomes useful in the future. The god of gold and riches created this golden coffin and sealed a magic spell onto it. Medusa will only be reborn if any bloodline of zeus places their finger in the cobras mouth and let it feed off the blood.

Motif self portrait What do you see when we lose our skin layer? I'll tell you what I see. I see truth, the feelings that you try to hide is sudden exposed and takes form in lines and shapes.

(Click Image For Full Scale) 17 Total Hours spent Painting this (11 3/4 inch X 59 inch) canvas with Black Acrylic. The Concept behind this project was to show how my imagination improved over the course of my life.

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Group Project on building a map of how we got here today.

My Artist Statement

Precision and detail is what I aim for in my work. I take simple patterns and use it to create an image that is visually more appealing to the eye and forces the viewer to pay attention to each and every dot. Each object in the work, whether it’s a tree or a flower deserves equal attention. Due to my minor obsessive-compulsive disorder, it forces me to make my work balanced, clean, and comprehensive. My viewer’s feelings and emotions to my work differs from each person due to their reaction towards the patterns and textiles used.

I believe that even the smallest speck in an artwork can change the overall atmosphere of the work. With that idea in mind, I think carefully about when and where to place certain patterns and details. A pattern on a piece of paper may mean nothing to the viewer, but when combined with several other ornaments, it creates a design. However, what’ll happen if you started to throw in multiple different patterns and motifs into the design? It starts to tell a story, a story that shows how several small marks created their own world.

My Goals this Term

My goals for this term is to further improve my portfolio by having different medias and variety. At the same time try out new ways to express my ideas and learn new skills. Some other things that I want to improve through this class is working under a theme or specific topic. Since I don't work well under strict and limited rules, I tend to give my work a twist, something to make it stand out, and to look different from the rest. So for this term, I really want to put my creativity skill at the maximum use.