Touch

Translucent

Digital Drawing on Edited Photograph

 "Our Skin is a kind of spacesuit in which we maneuver through an atmosphere of harsh gases, cosmic rays, radiation from the sun, and obstacles of all sorts."

A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman, p. 101

Statement:

In this photo, I took photos in order to emphasize my skin, as I wanted to play on the skin space suit idea by editing my skin to look like it was actually made of space. The glitch effect was added in order to convey that harshness that people often use to describe what space is like physically.

Caked Toes

Photoshopped Photograph

 "The squish of wet sand between the toes. Pressing on an angel food cake."

A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman, p. 119

Statement: 

The word soft is defined as having a pleasing quality through subtle effect which can be used to describe wet sand. For this photo, I again, took a literal approach of the metaphor being talked about as it depicts a softly edited image of my toes pressing on cake. 

Art 21

Alex Da Corte 

https://art21.org/watch/extended-play/alex-da-corte-57-varieties-short/

Vibrant & Loud

https://massmoca.org/event/alex-da-corte/

Color. Da Corte uses vibrant lights and saturated colors to make his work stand out. Furthermore, this element also draws a lot of attention from people and other artists.

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/alex-da-corte-easternsports-1

Shape. This photo displays two of the four giant projector screens that Da Corte had set up in order to create an immersive piece for its viewers. 

Elements and Principles

 

Focal Point
Maya Lin, Artist

Focal Point
Personal Digital Drawing

A few of my favorite things

1. Shoes: I chose these shoes to represent my love for fashion as well as to show that I love watching Cartoons as they are designed after the Mystery Machine from the Scooby-Doo series, I also own other pairs that are based on The Simpsons and Looney Tunes.

2. Nintendo Switch: I love playing video games so I have the screen showing Street Fighter III which I would call one of my favorite games, I also used Street Fighter to say that my favorite game genre is fighting although platformers and horror games are also genres that I enjoy greatly.

3. Canvas Photos: I love my best friends more than anything so I wouldn't have been able to complete this project if they weren't represented as they bring me a great amount of happiness. The canvas portrays three out of the five close friends I would say I have.

4. Eyeshadow: I've been thinking about getting into makeup for a long time and finally started using it about two months ago, I see it as something I'm able to express myself through along with fashion and I love being able to express myself and my interests whenever I can.

5. Lightbulb: I originally had the lightbulb shining on the photo to convey my love for vibrant colors as, similarly to all my lights, isn't white. At home, as well as at school, both my rooms have lights everywhere that I usually have set to blue, red, and purple and no space of mine would be complete without multicolored lights, lamps, or LEDs.