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To destroy is to create; one cannot exist without the other. The eggshell must break for the bird to hatch, a prairie must be burnt in order for the soil to be rich, livestock must die in order for us to feed. In this exhibition, I plan on exhibiting artworks that hold similar ideologies to destruction and its impact on my life and many others.
On choosing a theme for my exhibition, I wanted to choose something controversial yet applicable to me; an idea that is both nihilistic yet provokes thought, and is broad enough to be both positive and negative. With its negative connotation, destruction inspired me to think deeper and create art pieces that relate to me personally. Throughout my years of IB, I shifted from darker ideas to brighter ones about destruction. Though my pieces I have chosen for my exhibition consists of acrylic and oil paint, I’ve practiced other mediums such as pencil and photography. Painting is a medium that I am most confident in.
My exhibition would be displayed on a wall. First, I would place Instability in the center because it symbolizes something that shaped and affected me the most in my life. The divorce of my parents largely affected me. The piece focuses on the effects of an unstable household on a child and the importance of a unified home. This painting is more negative mainly to reflect how an unstable family had affected me. I would organize my paintings based on timeline; the oldest painting would be placed on the left and the latest to the right. This way, it shows the progression of how my paint strokes became bolder as did my color palette compared from year one to year two. On the left, I would group together early paintings that I’ve created; Facing Uncertainty, Melting Glaciers, and Burnout. On the right, I would place more recent paintings; Blue Man On The Wall, Ouroboros, and Hive Minded. They are organized corresponding to one another directly across from each other; Facing Uncertainty and Ouroboros both exhibit some of my more surreal styled pieces; Burnout and Blue Man On The Wall both are studies of drawing profile pictures and are placed facing away from each other; Hive Minded and Melting Glaciers both show natural and environmental issues I was compelled to symbolize through art.
Facing Uncertainty
Facing Uncertainty
Description: this piece focuses on the idea of being mocked yet remaining unchanged by the words of others. The sea monster’s green symbolizes the idea that people talk about you because they envy what you have and what they lack; it is green with envy. Yet it continues to mock you with its many mouths. The one person faces the monster alone because they cannot turn back on their actions. So instead, they brave the mockery as a ship would brave stormy seas
Instability
Instability
Description: this piece focuses on the effects an abusive home has on a child. One would predominantly think of the couples who are fighting, but the child would also be affected from the violence. The adults fighting in the background show no distinct features, because this can happen to any family. The adults are blue to show contrast against the ignored, pink baby, who is colored this way to show the humanity of the child.
Blue Man on the Wall
Blue Man on the Wall
Description: this piece was inspired by the literary work The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; the story of a woman who is slowly driven insane by the neglect of her husband and the confinement of her room. This idea inspired me to create an artwork that symbolizes the destruction of one's mind and sanity. The peach toned human symbolizes humanity and the blue “person” symbolizes the coldness of objects, yet the human embraces this coldness.
Melting Glaciers
Melting Glaciers
Description: this piece is to call attention to global warming and the melting ice caps. The painting shows a mother and cub polar bear who are wandering in an everwarming land. The polar bears are slowly melting, yet they are still close together, symbolizing the inseparable bond between mother and child. The polar bears are white and cool colored; they are more “pure” in color, compared to the messy, warm background.
Burnout
Burnout
Description: in this piece, I focused on the idea of self importance. People often place others in front of themselves and end up burning out from the lack of self worth. The person is symbolized as a candle, burning themself out to keep others warm. But they are just a small candle providing only some warmth, yet their sense of self is replaced by the sense of servitude towards others. Despite this self destructive antic, they are placed on a pedestal, as history has highlighted this as positive.
Hive Minded
Hive Minded
Description: this piece was inspired by a fake article about a woman discovering sweat bees in her tear ducts. This disturbing story inspired the piece of an individual being swarmed by bees; the painting consists of an individual being swarmed by bees. The idea of being overpowered by a small, but highly populated and unified force. As with most of the pieces, the idea of gender is negated in this piece as this makes the piece more relatable as it can happen to anyone.
Ouroboros
Ouroboros
Description: in this piece, the main subject is a serpent like individual who is eating their own skin sheddings. The skin colors are colored in different colors in a vast rainbow to symbolize the many different stages of a person's life time. The ouroboros is a mythological snake that ate its tail; the person eating their past to hide society from it symbolizes the continuity of the ouroboros. They are stuck in a loop of eating and hiding from their past self.
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