"Clogged Thoughts" Projection Piece
This portrait was drawn using compressed and vine charcoal. The video, that was created in Adobe After Effects was then projected over the portrait. This piece is about dealing with recurring negative affirmation. I would constantly have thoughts about a partner that moved away, these thoughts would entangle themselves and create a great deal of anxiety within me. Writing them down was very meditative and helped me to overcome this struggle. I was inspired by this faze in my life to create a piece about the issue of negative affirmation The black and white lithograph by Jose David Alfaro Siqueiros titled “Moises Saenz” inspired this portrait. The way in which he captures particular expressions through the solid volumetric forms makes the expressions clear and very readable. I attempted to achieve a similar style of drawing as Jose David Alfaro Siqueiros in this piece as the soft gradations allow for viewers to focus on the modeled forms that created the expressions as well as the projections at the same time. Jenny Holzer is another artist that has influenced this piece, as she projects words and phrases she calls truisms onto buildings. Her clever use of projections made think about ways in which I could integrate this art form in to my work.
This portrait was drawn using compressed and vine charcoal. The video, that was created in Adobe After Effects was then projected over the portrait. This piece is about dealing with recurring negative affirmation. I would constantly have thoughts about a partner that moved away, these thoughts would entangle themselves and create a great deal of anxiety within me. Writing them down was very meditative and helped me to overcome this struggle. I was inspired by this faze in my life to create a piece about the issue of negative affirmation The black and white lithograph by Jose David Alfaro Siqueiros titled “Moises Saenz” inspired this portrait. The way in which he captures particular expressions through the solid volumetric forms makes the expressions clear and very readable. I attempted to achieve a similar style of drawing as Jose David Alfaro Siqueiros in this piece as the soft gradations allow for viewers to focus on the modeled forms that created the expressions as well as the projections at the same time. Jenny Holzer is another artist that has influenced this piece, as she projects words and phrases she calls truisms onto buildings. Her clever use of projections made think about ways in which I could integrate this art form in to my work.