Final Project

Relax. Art Needs No Justification.

Environmentalist Statement 1.

Artistic Statement:

I will begin by discussing the first composition. In setting out to create my final originally based off of the concept of breath, I found it difficult to focus my ideas into a composition. To break through this stagnation I essentially took a deep breath and reminded myself that art doesn't need to be justified. It doesn't need and shouldn't be something. Working with modified concept in mind (breath and the idea that my art doesn't need to be anything specific) I wanted to use myself in the piece, getting over the awkward sensation of seeing yourself within the medium your creating with. I also wanted to depict a sense that taking a breath should help a person relax but wanted to complicated this traditional theory by adding in additional, non-relaxing components. I try to counter relaxation with randomized movement of scanned in tea bags, because tea is often used to relax. I also inserted a spinning brick background as apposed to the typically stationary bricks seen in reality and attempted to make the words breathe and relax aggravating by alternating their colors.

The second composition is based of off a different concept. The other day my friend and I picked up garbage from the street and threw it away in our apartment. While doing this we discussed the fact that removing debris from the street does little to solve the problem of pollution. Trash inevitably ends up in giant piles or in our oceans. Do to the relation that humans are consuming at an alarmingly, uncontrollable rate I wanted to make a composition that created awareness of this problem for the audience. To intensify the issue at hand, I inserted space or the universe into the background. This also attempts to comment on the magnitude of the problem.  I used scanned in plastic bags to create forms and a sense of movement and used striking pictures of pollution to stir the audience's emotion.