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Self Directed Practice #2: Medium Unspecific 

Title: Beautiful Mess

11 X 14 canvas

Materials: Acrylic paint, ink, makeup 

Based on my previous introduction piece, this work aims to include a bit more diversity on the facial features of women. My goal was to give a sense of “a beautiful mess.” I chose to go with the medium of painting, while also including more untraditional materials such as makeup (eyeshadows, concealer, and lipstick), since my original piece was also influenced by a makeup company. There is also some mark-making I included in the piece by adding my own lip marks, which is something I really love from the printmaking-etching technique. I kept the images of the women relatively small (just as my previous) to have the viewer have to lean in and focus on the details of their faces. This theme of ‘diversity of women’ is one that is still in process and I hope to be able to accomplish a more direct sense of this diversity. 

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Negative Spaces, September 2017

The role of each looping color tile with text is to alter the environment it’s projected in via it’s color. The color is not only meant to illuminate the space  but also cast emotions to the viewer with a flash of text. The selection of each word was guided by the color itself in reference to a negative psychological meaning of it. While that meaning can vary culturally and could be subjective to an individual the brief rapid flashing of the text can create a sense of anxiety or unease as pointed out in group review.