Title: Spiral
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Description: Inspired by Hitchcock’s Rear Window, this piece creates an ambiguous representation of a viewer. Is the figure looking at us, surveilling us? Are we witnessing a person visibly undergoing a form of visions related insanity? Are we being hypnotized? The background, a mix of blues and pinks and purples, refers to both the chaos and ubiquity of gender expectations as a backdrop for the viewer’s experiences, emphasizing the pervasiveness of these dynamics even in confusion.
Title: Lake Michigan
Medium: Watercolor on Canvas Board
Description: Reminiscent of the Pagan belief in water nymphs and spirits that were attached to bodies of water, Lake Michigan imagines a woman that encapsulates the essence of Lake Michigan. The background that she lays on are the dominant colors and reflections of the lake. While the lake’s landscape itself is divided into two abstract Rothkoesque rectangles, symbolic of a disjointed different looks and feelings, she is the divinity that ties otherwise entropic shapes together.
Title: Yuba River
Medium: Watercolor On Paper, Digital Installation
Description: Yuba River explores art’s evolution as the digital world continues to take over both art distribution and creation. The fragmented colorful images flashing on a loop are each pieces of a manual watercolor painting of a river landscape. Suspended into a spotlight, the image is packaged to us in neat, NFT like boxes that allow us to consume the art in small fragments. We will never see the full image, perhaps because we lack the patience. They move so quickly that the viewer does not get bored, but they sacrifice the full truth through satisfying the need for immediate gratification.