The artist Paul Villinski caught my attention out of all the other many, many artists. The colors that he used really grabbed my attention. The pieces he made interested me a great deal. How the object is being destroyed fading into butterflies. Even the black angel wings he made out of leather gloves. He works with mostly aluminum shaping them into butterflies. The wire pieces that he does turning them into a body. Then with the body is a butterfly somewhere or even a kaleidoscope of butterflies coming out of him. I learned that a group of butterflies are called kaleidoscopes. Paul Villinski wants to show us through his art that "we are not alone."
There are a lot of artists that inspired me, some who expressed it through words or even the actual that they did. Erin Hanson is a poet who did a series of poems based on society. One poem was about welcoming someone into society as if it was a cult. These rules you have to live by and the fact once you are in there is no going back. I based a piece on that, forming a more 3D piece based on the idea and meaning of that piece. I really grew with the meaning towards my art piece a lot this year. Starting with this piece and continuing on. I never have thought so deeply in my life allowing myself to go to those places in my mind that i normally avoid because well yeah. I have never really reflected my state of mind on my art work. I think also i found that i am more into working with 3D art than just painting a pretty picture and calling it a day. This is another piece that really made me go beyond my thinking comfort level. Erin Hanson hides her feelings in poems where as i hide it in my writing of my own. I layered what i never have said as the background then added onto it. She inspired me to use words beyond what most people use. I grew with meaning, i grew with using different images to form meaning. I even grew with myself understanding who i am as an artist. The Project was about what is something that you never got the chance to say. I Tried so hard to allow myself to release that part of me but i just couldn't do it. So instead i decided to show why i don't say that stuff instead. A wall that i put up in my mind to not allow people to cross into that part of me. I made it damaged to show that people have tried and it just ended in failure it ended with another hole inside of me. On the other side of this wall i made the sky so pretty to show that it's a interesting place for people to want and try to see what's on the other side. But the grass is all destroyed from the people who come and ruin things in there path. That is why i don't allow them to enter because it's all i have left that i don't want destroyed. Apart of that is from is my writing, i used that as the background and made it backwards because not many people who see what part of me has been put in it.
This project was very touchy for me, i had so many issues with it from the beginning and to the end. I couldn't bring myself to express what i have never gotten the chance to say. It's a part of me that will probably never be shown. |
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February 2017
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