Start Date: October, 2020
Completed Date: December, 2020
Gallery Exhibit: April 1st through April 16th
Materials: Graphite, Water Soluble Graphite, Charcoal, Water, Strathmore Drawing paper
Artist Statement: “Create something that screams louder than I could ever scream,” that is the essence of my project, 4 M's. My series of generations starts with a portrait about purity, a sense of newness and learning about the world, and ends with a person who has experienced how it has changed. The drawings are a representation of how I have observed the world, how my family has observed the world, and how I can let out my frustrations for the uncertainty of now. This is my scream, what will yours be?
Process: I began this class not knowing what I wanted to do at all, but excited to take part part in an independent studio course. I began to develop ideas from questions my professor asked us to think about: what we like to do, what we want to do, or other ideas. From there, I was tasked with deciding what would work within my time frame of one semester. My original idea was to draw various everyday object, or images, of emotion, but felt as though they would be too superficial. My professor challenged me to create something emotional, personal to me instead. I honestly had no idea how I was going to evoke emotion from a drawing but I settled down and got to work. Some days I would spend 10 hours easily just in the studio constantly drawing and taking time to really look at my work. After setting up the series for the classes final critique I took time to stop and look at my works. A wave of relief, sadness, happiness, and a feeling of pride hit me as I took in my work. It has as though the scream had then finally come out of me.
4 M's Displayed in McCoy Gallery
Memere
Mom
Me
