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An obsessive, yet wandering and immersed, state of mind is what I want to bring into the gallery and share with viewers. I want to give the viewers a chance to experience confusion and the need to figure out the sense out of what they see. Coming into my senior year, I figured I would want to focus on semi-realistic presentation, and the fact that I was allowed to draw literally anything pushed me to draw something that I would draw mindlessly in class to help me focus. I noticed that when I worked in this manner, I tended to draw objects that I would obsessively fixate on throughout that day or week. Those objects would usually be rocks, branches, animals, or something mechanical or technological. The more I would draw combinations of these items, the more fun it would be to create and build them up from scratch. With time, I tried to make something more out of it, again, thinking about presenting my work in a gallery and have it convey something to the viewers, I decided to add my love for scientific diagrams into the works to create a sense of a “world” that could be interesting to explore. I wanted to create something similar to Codex Ceraphinus, something weird yet fascinating.
Switching to online schooling allowed me to be inside my “studio” for a greater amount of time, which changed the approach to my work. I realized that making scientific diagrams was not as immersive as I wanted them originally to be. It was also a way for me to consider the influence of nature and the outdoors to gather ideas in my sketchbook. Because of the quarantine, the outdoors is not as important of a resource since it is mostly taking the same route to the grocery store. Since leaving campus, I have been focused on a large-scale piece, creating something that engulfs the person standing in front of it. I want to be able to create something complex that the viewer would not be able to look away from. Having limited drawing resources, I found it best to continue by altering my drawings digitally and realized that the best way to create something immersive in the digital environment is to animate it. Feel free to full screen the video for the better immersive experience. |