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Artistic expression, for me, starts from looking at the tree branch, the expression on people’s faces or the marble flooring, and the like. While at MSU I have created a few different series of works. The first called ‘Menu’ deals with pornography taken from the internet. While looking at specific images from printed sheets of paper, I painted the images while dealing with my issue of porn. The like and not like aspects of it and the outcome came to be non-threatening images on 8X5 sheets of paper. The next was a few works dealing with an obsession of a guy I met on the internet. The series has to deal with love, obsession, and longing to hold somebody you might never meet. I sculpted a head and created a huge canvas measuring 18’X9’ witch depicts imagery representing the feelings of love brought out from meeting this guy online. My final series deals with drawing from life. Taking one, two, or three sheets of paper and using charcoal to steer my hand and eye coordination to create the essence of the person I am looking at. This makes the subject recognizable but also holds the mystical qualities that captures more then a person’s flesh. I deal with the figure and what experiences I go through. There are always people around me and because I am a person I’m drawn to the face. It shows emotion. And I capture it! I could call myself an emotionalist. I represent the emotions. |
