Emma Lofland, Student Work

TRANQUIL

 

Everett Kentworthy, Student Work

 

Grace Tolbert, Student Work

 

Bianca Charles, Student Work

TRANSLUCENT MEMORIES

 

Daelynn Murphy, Student Work

 This piece, inspired by the painting The Death of Marat, is a surrealist interpretation of escapist bathing. The figure is tightly wrapped around his legs, with the same black fabric draping down from his head and melting into the floor, cascading out from the bathtub like a faucet. The viewer stares down at the subject, the form is vaguely recognizable as human from the exposed flesh of the shoulders. The figure adopts a pose of mourning, hunched over the edge of the tub with his thoughts, represented by the black fabric, pouring out unrestrained onto the floor. The parallel horizontal lines of the image are slightly skewed, creating an unfocused, dreamlike perspective. The shadows from the faucet and dial almost unrealistically distorted, dripping down the wall and into the tub, leading the eye to the figure and then around with his contorted body to the pool of fabric at the bottom left corner.

 

Emely Rodriguez Perez, Student Work

 

ISOLATED

The artwork explores national identity. I am from Costa Rica and have family in Cuba and Spain. I used flamenco shawls to show my nationality and cultural background. The flamenco shawl covering the face is significant. In Spain, women wear black veils over their face when going to a Catholic church and cover their hair when dancing flamenco and getting married. The image reflects a lonely  figure in an empty space.

Ben Tran, Student Work

DESPONDENCY

This work explores the loss of self. I was thinking about my depression and how lonely I oftentimes feel. A sense of loss is portrayed through how the figure isn't easily recognizable as human. The figure, on their hands and knees in an isolated space, further expresses the idea of being defeated by pain and loneliness.

Key Russell, Student Work

Artist Statement

The bandages symbolize keeping emotions together during a relationship and mending after a relationship ends. I posed the model to touch different parts of the body. These body parts are important, as each area is symbolic. The head represents a person thinking logically in a relationship and attempting to rationalize emotions. The heart represents feelings you cannot choose or rationalize. I think the heart is where feelings form even if they are not expected or wanted. The pelvic area represents sexual desire. Covering the chest, head, or torso may allow for the other two to express themselves more openly.

Nicki Smith, Student Work

Artist Statement:

I used a delicate sheer fabric to conceal my body. My personal goal for this was to have an ambiguous figure roaming around. The "happening" occurs when the fabric billows around me. Water soaking the fabric, the sand getting on the fabric and the fabric dragging through the sand making marks is also part of the happening. The video has an overall sense of eeriness. I slowed down the film to .4x the speed and put an appropriate filter on top. I feel the color genuinely helps with the ambiguity of the piece. The underlying meaning for this piece collectively was to suggest a sense of knowing that left the viewer confused yet wondering. 

Conrad Kane, Student Work

Twisted paper wrapped around human body.
Poetry Garment Assignment

The Vine by Robert Herrick

I dream'd this mortal part of mine


Was Metamorphoz'd to a Vine;


Which crawling one and every way


Enthralled my dainty Lucia.


Me thought, her long small legs & thighs


I with my Tendrils did surprize;


Her Belly, Buttocks, and her Waste


By my soft Nerv'lits were embrac'd:


About her head I writhing hung,


And with rich clusters (hid among


The leaves) her temples I behung:


So that my Lucia seem'd to me


Young Bacchus ravisht by his tree.


My curles about her neck did craule,


And armes and hands they did enthrall;


So that she could not freely stir,


(All parts there made one prisoner.)


But when I crept with leaves to hide


Those parts, which maids keep unespy'd,


Such fleeting pleasures there I took,


That with the fancie I awook;


And found (Ah me!) this flesh of mine


More like a Stock, than like a Vine.

James Mattson, Student Work