Metamorfosis - Senior Year Exhibition
There is something incredibly alluring about the process of transformation, whether it is the development of a single seed into a stunning flower or the evolution of a person through life experience. Self love is a daring act of disobedience in a culture that frequently tries to convince us that we aren’t deserving. I celebrate the beauty and resilience of the human spirit through my art and encourage people to accept and love themselves for who they are as they go through the multiple changes life has to offer. I want to explore the idea of progress in all its manifestations. I make artwork in a wide range of media, including photography, ceramics, and sculpture, to express the complexity and beauty of self growth.
Inspired by Mac Miller’s Come Back To Earth
Flowing lines and vivid colors inspire a sense of movement, change, and exude a sense of assurance and empowerment. I offer spaces for introspection, personal development, and self discovery. Most importantly, I want my viewers to remember that while love can get you into situations, self love can get you out of them.
What does growth look like to you? Where is it in the spaces you frequent?
The focus for this project was growth of all kinds, movement, the natural flow of the current. I used imagery of leaves and fish. The physical positioning of hands that constantly move. Different kinds of media and music inspired me for this project. I was in a head space where I felt a little lost moving into adulthood. I wanted to make something that signified growing into something and not necessarily already being ready to make those changes. I think my favorite and most profound piece is definitely my plaster made hands. It signifies the holding on/letting go of something you know isn’t yours and maybe never was yours but you feel the sense of ownership because you’ve had it for an undisclosed period of time.
This project was not only fun to make but also heartbreaking. It was the culmination of my time in undergrad and it was my final realization that I had to move on and let go of all the things that I had come to know over my 4 years of self discovery and growth. Friendships, relationships, education as a young adult, everything was slipping through my fingers and I didn’t know how to stop it from happening. During the middle of my production stage I decided that when I finished this project that I would make peace with everything I had to leave behind. Nothing was stopping me from crafting these kinds of connections elsewhere because I was still me but I also wasn’t. Leaving undergrad I was intelligent, eloquent, and more in tune with who I was and wanted to be.
