Incomplete Stories…

Rejected submission to YoungArts 2017.

Personal Stories, Shared Experiences:

“Everyone has their own stories but what many people may not realize is that the experiences they go through on a daily basis are not singular.  There are seven basic stories that are said to make up every fairytale, novel, or plot every told. In my series “Personal stories: Shared experiences,” I explore how these common story arcs shape my own life and how those effects are paralleled in society. 

 Overall stories have this tendency, to sully out in our minds. Facts blend together, like paint in a palette, into a muddy mixture of emotions. But certain details have an ability to amplify with time. The colors concentrating as memories leave only silhouettes and lines to fill in for once developed characters and plots in our stories.

I also explore this aging of experiences into memories through the 3-dimensional elements of each work. Over time the most prominent details have a way of moving forward, literally raising off of the canvas into the viewers’ world. 

The main 3-dimensional elements are thin bass wooden strips and hazy structure gel. The manufactured wooden strips also connect the abstract stories I created to the real world through the basic design element of lines. Each fluid work is contrasted with the wooden strips which expand the scene beyond the canvas. The structure gel adds dimension to the edge of each work making it seem as if each piece is set in floating thought bubble.

The portfolio culminates in a sculpture that show different aspects of my own stories and others I have heard jumbled together into the crazy world we live in.”