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WOMAN summer project 2024
The last term of my first year in Brockwood we were asked to pick an independent summer project for our art class and I decided to create a response to the word ‘woman’. When thinking about a woman, the first thing that came to my mind was something incredibly beautiful, vibrant, and sensitive. A split second later, there was another chain of thoughts: restriction, fear, norms, standards and the never ending attempt to stay small, down, quiet, and distracted by chasing after unachievable standards. These thoughts and ideas made me angry and sad.
I can often notice in myself, when I am dedicated to a given moment, and most of my thoughts are absent, I feel lighter. As soon as the head joins with judgements, expectations and comparisons, I am starting to feel caged, caught up in myself.
I made some preliminary sketches and then decided to create a big piece of work.
At the centre of the wooden canvas sits a beautiful being. With beautiful I don’t mean only pretty, I mean something deeper, that kind of beauty that is contained in the world around us, in the trees, lakes and night sky.She is so alive and connected with the world around, but restricted by judgements, fear and society. All of it already being so embodied in one self.
I worked on plywood (approx. 150cm x 90cm), with gesso primer, acrylics and leaves, as well as aluminium wire, because it is easy to bend.
Below you can see the process of planning the piece and composition.
I can often notice in myself, when I am dedicated to a given moment, and most of my thoughts are absent, I feel lighter. As soon as the head joins with judgements, expectations and comparisons, I am starting to feel caged, caught up in myself.
I made some preliminary sketches and then decided to create a big piece of work.
At the centre of the wooden canvas sits a beautiful being. With beautiful I don’t mean only pretty, I mean something deeper, that kind of beauty that is contained in the world around us, in the trees, lakes and night sky.She is so alive and connected with the world around, but restricted by judgements, fear and society. All of it already being so embodied in one self.
I worked on plywood (approx. 150cm x 90cm), with gesso primer, acrylics and leaves, as well as aluminium wire, because it is easy to bend.
Below you can see the process of planning the piece and composition.
SELF-PERCEPTION, WHAT DO YOU SEE WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR?
In my second year I started the Art A-Level, and I carried on working with the theme of societal standards and women's bodies, because it is present in my life. After experimenting with different titles, I chose this one because I wanted to focus on more aspects of the way a human perceives themselves, such as conditioning, our genes, past experiences, and mental or internal struggles, other than just body image.
I explored realistic drawing from primary sources, different media like gouache, oilpaints, printmaking, and so on; formal elements like colour, scale and composition, as well as different styles from realism to distortion and abstraction.
Here you can see the six A2 sheets of my journey with the Cambridge international exam board.
I explored realistic drawing from primary sources, different media like gouache, oilpaints, printmaking, and so on; formal elements like colour, scale and composition, as well as different styles from realism to distortion and abstraction.
Here you can see the six A2 sheets of my journey with the Cambridge international exam board.
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