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There are so many problems in today’s world; this art piece represents how if we all stop focusing on ourselves, we can fight these problems together. The two figures in the background represent how some people refuse to see the… Continue Reading →
I have drawn XiJinPing as a caricature of Winnie the Pooh as popular memes have depicted him as such. I wanted my piece to be simple and get to the point so I depicted him as a monster biting into his honeypot as many believe that he has a iron hold on China as he as done very authoritarian things to his people such as cancelling the ShangHai Pride Parade. I put his name down in mandarin as well as in pinyin so any quick search of the pinyin can yield results explaining him and his regime. The medium I originally chose was acrylic paint but in honesty, as a artist I quickly discovered that paint was not my forte and the early sketches looked, quite frankly, awful.
I was unable to do the piece that I really wanted, but I still wanted to tackle the juxtaposition of our everyday lives and what is happening abroad in Gaza, and Palestine, and in the Congo even. Especially with the… Continue Reading →
“Solutions for the modern warfighter” is a slogan from Boeing’s website, where it is used in reference to the missiles and other weaponry Boeing produces. I wanted to connect it directly to the horrific and scraped-out scenes those weapons are… Continue Reading →
I choose to make this artwork after thinking about human waste and how the things we produce don’t really go away even if they are not right in front of us. I found the pull tab on the top left half buried in the ground while I was in nature and that is what promoted this artwork as we’ll as my pondering about human nature and how something like a soda or cig will continue to stay in the environment which they get left in after being consumed, too small to get picked up by a random person while also being synthetic and human enough to never truly return to the natural elements they began as. Overall this was more of an exploration of human nature than the actual effects of pollution focusing more on the human tendency of justifying actions and inactions based on the scale of the greater problem.
I chose to do my project about the ever-growing threat of climate change. I chose to incorporate industrial machinery as climate change is driven by human activity. The scrawled handwriting shows a sense of desperation – as our world becomes… Continue Reading →
