Core Seminar 3

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Title: “The Spectacle”

Size: 12 x 9 in

Medium: Acrylic, Pen

From my experience  of visiting Coney Island combined with reading the assigned text, a common theme that I noticed was being artificial. There are many things that are unnatural about the island, and much of it is man made and industrial. The scenery and amusement park lure people from all socioeconomic backgrounds and people who wouldn’t normally be in the same place, which causes a bizarre phenomenon to occur. Because of this, there is something disturbing and at the same time very comical about the island. I wanted to illustrate this dark humor in a painting, where there is a strong sense of artifice and uneasiness, where things do not necessarily make sense or belong, much like the feeling I had when visiting Coney Island.

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