Unending Ponderings on the Self
In senior year of high school, so many things ask: Who are you? What do you value? What do you want? I spent many hours pondering these questions in silence. They evoked melancholic and wistful emotions in me. I attempt to capture these feelings through stark depictions of humanity in my series, Unending Ponderings on the Self. Set in bold black ink and large white space, my pieces set humans against the innumerable vastness of the world. To reflect the immaterial nature of my subjects, my pieces draw mostly from my imagination and memories.
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The Tsukumogami are a kind of Japanese yokai, a spirit that possesses abandoned objects and gives them wills and thoughts, for good or ill. In NAME TBD, objects mutate into whimsical and grotesque life, contrasting themselves with their mundane surroundings and calling into question their place before. My pieces are intended to make viewers reexamine their surrounding objects, routines, and people.that might be dismissed as ordinary, while addressing issues like overconsumption and disconnection from childhood. A palette of mostly desaturated and hyper saturated colors clash to further highlight this shift.
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