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Mask, 2015faux fur, paper mache, clay, paint, found objects
I made this mask as an exploration of identity and how our personal past shapes it. Our experiences are our only ways of gauging the world around us and creating a sense of self, individual and unique to our bodies and life. Good and bad experiences alike can have a permanent effect on our minds and personalities. It is almost always the case that negative aspects of our personalities are caused by some subconscious thought-and-reaction process engrained in our brain by our experience. In this piece, I took several unfinished projects from years ago, and combined, refaced, and appropriated parts of them to make something entirely new. Using only pieces of former works, I tried to assemble them in a way that invoked a vision of personal identity in the form of a mask. Pieces of faux fur from clothing, christmas ornaments, stickers and beads from childhood collections, paper mache sculpture, and animal teeth were combined, along with other found objects, to create this mask. |
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Untitled, 2015lightbulb, tinsel, string lights, bone, vintage rabbit pelt
This project is a comment on the pretentiousness so prevalent in the art world. It does not have a meaning. It is unforgivingly shallow. It is a play on words as a mirror is a play on light. This is cynical. If one claims to have found a meaning in this, they are lying. It is a project to be appreciated only for its visual appeal. No one knows the meaning of life or death, for no one has completed either. The only constant in this world is change. Anyone who thinks art must have a meaning is full of themselves. I am so tired. Perhaps I will fall asleep with teeth under my pillow. That is why teeth are incorporated in this sculpture. They represent childish belief in lies. I just made that up. There is no meaning. It's just pretty. I am not inspired nor am I trying to make a point. |