international baccalaureate exhibition
I hold a strong fascination in the human experience and existence. How humans live their lives will undoubtedly be different from person to person, though there will always be staple experiences and emotions that is shared with the rest of humanity. Though vastly different from one another, these common feelings are something all can relate to and are shaped by. I create my artwork around these said concepts, questioning what it is that makes humans what and who they are. My work is oriented around specific notions that I find particularly significant to the foundation of the human experience as well as personally important to myself. My focus largely was centered in especially the more negative attributes of humanity, though my much later works display a more positive aspect. There were many concerns that I faced when creating work, such as how to pull together such a broad theme as human experience as well as how I wanted to portray this concept. I opted in working in miniature series in order to pace ideas at a more manageable rate without sacrificing the clarity of my theme. Only two series will be present in my exhibition, though these series hold a heavy personal importance.
The first series focuses mainly on questioning what makes us human. Questioning our humanity is a unique and specific thing for us to do. Each piece in this series represents a concept that others or I have consider a trait that is distinctive to the human experience, whether it is important to development or something we experience more intimately that how other living creatures do. Each piece has a question as a title to further push the theme on questioning in this series.
My second series deals with a more specific and personal concept that I am close to, which is why and how human beings cope with situations or other people. It is both an extension and continuation of my previous series, specifically branching off of the last piece in my first series, “Better?”. Coping is also a uniquely human thing to do, as animals do not truly try to cope with traumatic events due to it showing vulnerability, compromising them in their environment.
As an experienced digital artist, I struggled to move out of my comfort zone, but did manage to experiment in mediums I usually would not have produced work with such as mixed media and 3D. My experimentation with different media became especially apparent in my second series, as I had tried my hand at woodwork, which became a common medium in this series. In fact, the majority of work in my second series is 3D, with reason behind the kind of medium work. All work in my second series is meant to be interacted with, in which 3D medium was most promising for this goal. The purpose of interactivity is to have the double meaning of you cannot touch an artist’s artwork without their permission, just as you cannot help someone if they do not allow you to help them. The first piece in this series, “Realities”, became an entry piece for me into 3D mediums. My second series is also important and exclusive to me personally, as coping is a very intimate thing to me as a mentally ill individual coupled with the fact that my pieces are meant to be interacted with.
I have structured my exhibition in a manner that is meant to represent the highs and lows during a human life. My first series follows a specific line of movement, moving forward in a diagonal with a piece above or below the one previous from it. Due to my second series being mostly 3D, the diagonal method would not be executed well. Therefore, I have instead placed them in a linear row underneath my first series with a specific order of my pieces, telling a narrative. What 2D pieces I do have will still follow the diagonal pattern I have set up previously, as I do not want to break the continuity of movement I have already established beforehand. Any large pieces that cannot be mounted will be set on the floor next to other large pieces.
The first series focuses mainly on questioning what makes us human. Questioning our humanity is a unique and specific thing for us to do. Each piece in this series represents a concept that others or I have consider a trait that is distinctive to the human experience, whether it is important to development or something we experience more intimately that how other living creatures do. Each piece has a question as a title to further push the theme on questioning in this series.
My second series deals with a more specific and personal concept that I am close to, which is why and how human beings cope with situations or other people. It is both an extension and continuation of my previous series, specifically branching off of the last piece in my first series, “Better?”. Coping is also a uniquely human thing to do, as animals do not truly try to cope with traumatic events due to it showing vulnerability, compromising them in their environment.
As an experienced digital artist, I struggled to move out of my comfort zone, but did manage to experiment in mediums I usually would not have produced work with such as mixed media and 3D. My experimentation with different media became especially apparent in my second series, as I had tried my hand at woodwork, which became a common medium in this series. In fact, the majority of work in my second series is 3D, with reason behind the kind of medium work. All work in my second series is meant to be interacted with, in which 3D medium was most promising for this goal. The purpose of interactivity is to have the double meaning of you cannot touch an artist’s artwork without their permission, just as you cannot help someone if they do not allow you to help them. The first piece in this series, “Realities”, became an entry piece for me into 3D mediums. My second series is also important and exclusive to me personally, as coping is a very intimate thing to me as a mentally ill individual coupled with the fact that my pieces are meant to be interacted with.
I have structured my exhibition in a manner that is meant to represent the highs and lows during a human life. My first series follows a specific line of movement, moving forward in a diagonal with a piece above or below the one previous from it. Due to my second series being mostly 3D, the diagonal method would not be executed well. Therefore, I have instead placed them in a linear row underneath my first series with a specific order of my pieces, telling a narrative. What 2D pieces I do have will still follow the diagonal pattern I have set up previously, as I do not want to break the continuity of movement I have already established beforehand. Any large pieces that cannot be mounted will be set on the floor next to other large pieces.