Experiential Landscape, Charcoal on Paper, 6.5'x36"
The Experiential Landscape is inspired by multiple panel works that alter the viewers relationship and perception of the work. This piece is intended to engulf the viewer by its size and semicircular display. Because the piece is over six feet long the viewer must observe it in much the same way as one takes in nature by turning and exploring. This change in relationship between the viewer and the work encourages an experiential interaction and observation that might otherwise not occur.
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Transformation Drawing I, Art Graph Disk, 42"x36" Transformation Drawing In Process, Art Graph Disk, 42"x36" Transformation Drawing II, Art Graph Disk, Charcoal, and Chalk Pastel, 42"x36" Transformation Drawing III, Charcoal and gesso, 42"x36" Transformation Drawing III, Detail Transformation Drawing IV,Charcoal and Gesso, 42"x36" Transformation Drawing V, Charcoal and Gesso, 42"x36"x10" Transformation Drawing VI, Charcoal and Gesso,12"x 42"
While creating the transformation drawings I was contemplating the transformation of the landscape. Each transformation attempts to create space and depth in the landscape through light. The materiality of the charcoal and gesso is expressed in the contrast of light and dark and it's expression in different landscapes. "Individuals in a Crowd", Oil Paint on Paper, Each portrait is approximately 8"x5".
This drawing collection centers around the importance and value of every individual. When observing groups and crowds of people individuals are often dehumanized and perceived as the "other". The individual's humanity is often diminished by generalizations and cultural perceptions; they become unseen and unnoticed. Within this piece I worked to impress upon the viewer the importance of each person by highlighting the unnoticed people in the background of my own life. Each portrait in the collection is a person in the background of my own photographs, which is integral to the work because these are people I have seen yet not noticed. Mysterious House,Charcoal on paper,18"x12.5" This drawing was done while listening to a podcast mystery about an abandoned house in the woods. I tried to mimic the tone and sense of foreboding conveyed in the story.
"Time,Paper,Tree", Charcoal and eraser, 18"x12.5" "Time in the Living Room", Charcoal on paper, 18"x12.5" "The End", Charcoal on Paper, 18"x 12.5" "Time Under a Tree", Charcoal on Paper, 18"x 12.5" Each of these eraser drawings centers around the idea of time, incorporating erasing as a concept of time. The work "Time, Paper, Tree" plays with the irony of drawing a tree on paper as an earlier reflection of the paper itself. "Time in the Living Room", is my living room over time, drawing in my roommates erasing them, drawing in and erasing the movements of the dog and the coffee table. This work made me reconsider the idea of a drawing which previously seemed to capture a single moment. Yet, in reality most drawings from life are a reflection of the multiple hours in which they were created.While drawing "The End" I was thinking about death in the context of time, not being the end.For the piece "Under a Tree", I would draw the shadows of the branches once an hour over the course of several hours letting the shadows illustrate time.
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