My sustained investigation explores the feeling of intrusive thoughts, the effect they have on the person, and how they could be visualized based on my experiences.
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#1
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#2
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#4
Please shut up
watercolor
9''x9''
Number four is when I felt like I was actually improving in my art and that I was getting somewhere in my ideas; switching my medium to water color definitely helped. Even though the next few aren't focusing on certain thoughts, I feel like they still match up with my theme well and convey what I want them to. This piece represents the feeling of shouting in the mind and dealing with it even if its affecting you. The covered mouth is the feeling of not being able to talk about the thoughts in confidence or not feeling comfortable. The mouths are the voices. I used colors opposite of each other on the color wheel for the lips so it looked a little more unsettling. I wish I had time to add more to fill up the space more.
#5
Its all it your head
mixed media
12''x9''
Number five is a piece I originally did for a different class. I used black ink to draw onto an unfilled tea bag and then suspended them over differently filled teacups. The liquid was a mix of water and black fabric dye. The meaning is meant to show the feeling of drowning in your own head. The first tea cup barely filled but still standing in the water and simply observing it. The second much fuller and closer to the head. The threat of the water rising over and not being able to breath is much more prominent but still not trying to get out. The third the water has gone over the edge and it feels too late to reach out. The water won't lower but it will go over and spread. The effects of the thoughts no longer only effect the mind but the body and well. The effects of depression can have negative physical repercussions.
#6
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#7
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#8
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#9
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#10
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#11
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#12
The dishes are done
digital
24''x13''
This is what's left in the sink after the dishes are done and it represents the thought and realization that that's the same food I ate earlier. It shows a disgust in food that is experienced even before it becomes wet scraps left in the sink. I wanted to make it look gross so the viewer would experience that same emotion. It's about the feeling of disgust towards eating in general and how food is perceived. What I just ate turned into that so that's what I'm eating when I do. I think I did really well on all the details in this and I love how the glass turned out. The color and style contributes to the theme and the setup of clutter give it a lot of depth.
#13
Brain food
sculpture
10''x13''
This sculpture holds some of the same meaning as #6, the eating away of mental health as well as physical. It also represents habits of self destruction and detachment from self. This piece separates the mind and body and shows how it feels to not find any sort of attachment to physical form and how that leads to habits that hurt the real body. I find myself often using eating your own brain to represent this and I feel like I do it well even though I should branch out and try new things. There are other things I could use in a similar way next year that represent the same theme of self destruction. This is eating my own brain instead of food, but I could use things like cutting my head off to get rid of thoughts or opening up my heart to take away feelings. This piece is acting as my starting point into AP-3D art next year and I think it gives me a good idea of what I can be creating and challenging myself with. There's a lot I love about this sculpture too. The emotion behind the placement of the mouth and hands turned out exactly how I wanted because you can almost imagine the rest of the body behind it. The resin that I used to cover the brain and drip from the hands gave the desired goopy look and I was able to incorporate my watercolor style into a 3-D form.
#14
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