Bridge 4: Homecoming: Returning the Canvases

Homecoming: Returning the Canvases Dimensions: 20 x 24 Medium: Acrylic, Wood Artist Statement: Museums are highly dependent on artifacts and paintings from all around the world and boast about having large collections of these relics regardless of how they were acquired. This painting depicts a scene inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where all the paintings are blank, envisioning a reality where paintings and artifacts are rightfully repatriated. I chose…

Bridge 2: A Bedroom, Unveiled

Artist Statement: Within my bedroom, the unnecessary hoardings of paper bags cluttered up my space. Rather than throwing them all away, I used them as the primary material for this project to physically incorporate a fragment of my room into this piece. The night before sitting in my room and observing, I do a similar thing within my piece, most of the paper bags in my room were ripped and…

Paper Work

Materials: Paper Towel Drawing Paper Copy Paper Watercolor Acrylic Paint Liquid Glue Process: Base of the Pouch- I painted strips of paper towel with different color watercolors then left it flat to dry. Once dry, I glued the strips of paper towel onto drawing paper to reinforce opacity. I cut the paper into smaller strips to mimic the color swatches of fabric. I glued all my paper strips in order…