Edlyn Raisa James
Edlyn Raisa James
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Curatorial Rationale
Curatorial Rationale
The body of work focuses on the theme of self love. Self love is essential in order to live in peace. During my teenage years, I struggled in accepting and loving myself completely. Thus, I realized how impactful and important self love is for everyone. Through this exhibition, I hope people will become more aware about self love and how to achieve it. These factors made me very interested in pursuing this theme for my exhibition.
My exhibition starts with “Mask On” as my first artwork. It explains how people wear a mask everyday to show happiness despite the problems they are actually facing. The facial expression and colors of each face illustrates masks that people usually expose themselves to the whole world. Through this artwork, we should learn to practice loving ourselves, so we don’t need to wear a mask because we feel comfortable. The second artwork, “Beauty of Stretch Marks”, discusses how we all should embrace our insecurity. It symbolizes body positivity by embracing the tiger stripes shown on the stomach. They remind us that we are human and it’s normal. “The Eye” illustrates how differences should be embraced. The different colored eyes represents the different races. While the other 3 women represent the beauty of all races that illustrates through the pink covered eyes. It reminds us that we should learn self love despite our differences because it makes us unique. My forth artwork is “Happiness Over Everything” which portrays one of the factors that makes self love more difficult. The girl who is holding the measurement illustrates the struggle to accept her insecurity which is her weight. While, the writing on the mirror illustrates acceptance and happiness. This indicates that self love walks hand in hand with self-acceptance, to have one is to have the other. It's impossible to love yourself without accepting who you are because value doesn't lie in how your body looks. “Judgement” explains how hard other’s opinions could stop us loving ourselves. The blue colored girl represents sadness while the red colored girl represents madness. The color scheme illustrates the feeling dejected with the use of dark colors. All we need is self acceptance of who we are to love ourselves. The next artwork is “Cloudy Thoughts”, which is an illustration of how self love could make us grow as a person. The person with a big cloud represents flaws. The rain which the girl collected represents self love and acceptance as it helps the plant grow. This illustration shows us that we need to accept ourselves in order to love ourselves.This reminds us to always accept our flaws and insecurities in order to make ourselves grow as a person. The seventh artwork is “Stop Staring At Me!” that portrays insecurities that makes self love even harder. Acne is one of the biggest struggles and insecurities that teenagers faced. The girl illustrates the hate of having acne by covering it with her hands. Through this artwork, it reminds us to accept and embrace insecurities like acne as it is normal for every human being to have acne. The final artwork is “The Cracked Mirror” which represent peace that is formed with the help of self love. The hole represents us who struggle accepting our flaws. However, once we try to go out of that hole, we could see butterflies and flowers. This illustrates peace and tranquility. With the help of self love we could love ourselves and find peace and happiness.
All of the artworks were made with different mediums which are 3D, painting, mix media and digitally. Thus, I could experiment and learn more on the method I used in order to make these artworks. I was inspired by my personal experiences on accepting and loving myself. Besides of that, I applied symbolisms to convey the messages that I want to raise to the audience. My intention though this exhibition is to make people more aware about self love and how to achieve it.
My exhibition starts with “Mask On” as my first artwork. It explains how people wear a mask everyday to show happiness despite the problems they are actually facing. The facial expression and colors of each face illustrates masks that people usually expose themselves to the whole world. Through this artwork, we should learn to practice loving ourselves, so we don’t need to wear a mask because we feel comfortable. The second artwork, “Beauty of Stretch Marks”, discusses how we all should embrace our insecurity. It symbolizes body positivity by embracing the tiger stripes shown on the stomach. They remind us that we are human and it’s normal. “The Eye” illustrates how differences should be embraced. The different colored eyes represents the different races. While the other 3 women represent the beauty of all races that illustrates through the pink covered eyes. It reminds us that we should learn self love despite our differences because it makes us unique. My forth artwork is “Happiness Over Everything” which portrays one of the factors that makes self love more difficult. The girl who is holding the measurement illustrates the struggle to accept her insecurity which is her weight. While, the writing on the mirror illustrates acceptance and happiness. This indicates that self love walks hand in hand with self-acceptance, to have one is to have the other. It's impossible to love yourself without accepting who you are because value doesn't lie in how your body looks. “Judgement” explains how hard other’s opinions could stop us loving ourselves. The blue colored girl represents sadness while the red colored girl represents madness. The color scheme illustrates the feeling dejected with the use of dark colors. All we need is self acceptance of who we are to love ourselves. The next artwork is “Cloudy Thoughts”, which is an illustration of how self love could make us grow as a person. The person with a big cloud represents flaws. The rain which the girl collected represents self love and acceptance as it helps the plant grow. This illustration shows us that we need to accept ourselves in order to love ourselves.This reminds us to always accept our flaws and insecurities in order to make ourselves grow as a person. The seventh artwork is “Stop Staring At Me!” that portrays insecurities that makes self love even harder. Acne is one of the biggest struggles and insecurities that teenagers faced. The girl illustrates the hate of having acne by covering it with her hands. Through this artwork, it reminds us to accept and embrace insecurities like acne as it is normal for every human being to have acne. The final artwork is “The Cracked Mirror” which represent peace that is formed with the help of self love. The hole represents us who struggle accepting our flaws. However, once we try to go out of that hole, we could see butterflies and flowers. This illustrates peace and tranquility. With the help of self love we could love ourselves and find peace and happiness.
All of the artworks were made with different mediums which are 3D, painting, mix media and digitally. Thus, I could experiment and learn more on the method I used in order to make these artworks. I was inspired by my personal experiences on accepting and loving myself. Besides of that, I applied symbolisms to convey the messages that I want to raise to the audience. My intention though this exhibition is to make people more aware about self love and how to achieve it.
Mask On
Acrylic on canvas
100x120cm
Stop Staring At Me
Mixed Media
40x60cm
Beauty of Stretchmarks
Digital art
50x50cm
The Eye
Mixed Media
42x60cm
Happiness Over Everything
Photography
30x42cm
Judgement
Acrylic on canvas
60x80cm
Cloudy Thoughts
Acrylic on canvas
50x60cm
The Cracked Mirror
3D
106x35cm
Artwork 1
Artwork 1
Mask On
Mask On
Acrylic on canvas
100x120cm
Every day, we’ll see people who seem happy with their lives. But the sad truth is, people wear a mask everyday to show happiness despite the problems they are actually facing. The facial expression and colors illustrates masks that people expose their self to the whole world. At the end of the day, we should learn to practice self-acceptance, loving ourselves, our true selves, so we don’t need to wear a mask because we feel comfortable and at peace with who we are.
Artwork 2
Artwork 2
Beauty of Stretch Marks
Beauty of Stretch Marks
Digital art
50x50cm
As a woman with stretch marks on her thighs, I considered these as unattractive, ugly and horrible for the longest time. This artwork represents the beauty of stretch marks by proudly embracing it. Thus, it symbolizes body positivity by embracing the tiger stripes shown on the stomach. They remind us that we are human and that none is perfect. It makes ourselves unique so we all should embrace it and start loving and accepting ourselves.
Artwork 3
Artwork 3
The Eye
The Eye
Mixed Media
42x60cm
Artwork 4
Artwork 4
Happiness Over Everything
Happiness Over Everything
Photography
@ 30x42cm
People struggle with self love because they keep fighting who they are. It could be that they don't like their reflection in the mirror or where they are in life. The girl who is holding the measurement illustrates the struggle to accept her insecurity which is her weight. While, the writing on the mirror illustrates acceptance and happiness. This indicates that self love walks hand in hand with self-acceptance, to have one is to have the other. It's impossible to love yourself without accepting who you are because value doesn't lie in how your body looks.
Artwork 5
Artwork 5
Judgement
Judgement
Acrylic on canvas
60x80cm
One of the reason why is it so hard for people to love themselves is due to judgement. The blue colored girl represents sadness while the red colored girl represents madness. We should encounter those feeling with self acceptance because then we could love ourselves. The color scheme illustrates the feeling dejected with the use of dark colors. At the end, we don't have to worry about others opinion. All we need is self acceptance of who we are to love ourselves.
Artwork 6
Artwork 6
Cloudy Thoughts
Cloudy Thoughts
Acrylic on canvas
50x60cm
Sad and dark thoughts will cross our minds at least once in our lifetime. However, it helps us to grow even more. The person with a big cloud represents flaws. The rain which the girl collected represents self love and acceptance as it help the plant grow. This illustration shows us that we need to accept ourselves in order to love ourselves. Thus, it will make us grow as a person. This reminds us to always accept our flaws and insecurities in order to make ourselves grow as a person.
Artwork 7
Artwork 7
Stop Staring At Me!
Stop Staring At Me!
Mixed Media
40x60cm
In the teenage years, young adults struggles with acne that could even affect their self esteem. Thus, It is one of the biggest struggles and insecurities that teenagers faced. The girl illustrates the hate of having acne by covering it with her hands. Through this artwork, it reminds us to accept and embrace it as it is normal for every human being to have acne.
Artwork 8
Artwork 8
The Cracked Mirror
The Cracked Mirror
3D
106x35cm
The cracked mirror illustrates where self love is very important in order to be at peace. The hole represents us who struggle accepting our flaws. However, once we try to go out of that hole, we could see butterflies and flowers. This illustrates peace and tranquility. With the help of self love we could love ourselves and find peace and happiness.
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