Artist Statment

For Thesis, I have begun to explore the social binds and constructs that I experience in my everyday life. The pieces we will look at today explore consent, sexual violence, diet culture, and gender roles. 

As a Multimedia Major, I work across subjects instead of picking one focus. This allows me to form the media I use to my ideas. One of my goals this semester has been to push myself out of my comfort zone by using forms of media I feel the least confident in. Such as text-based art, graphically designed pieces, and sewing. Which has led to me making a combination of hand-sculpted and digitally art. 

As I have been creating pieces I’ve also been researching artists. These artists directly influence my work. Some of the main artists I have looked at so far are Trenton Doyle Hancock, Emma Sulkowicz, and the art group Meow Wolf. I plan to continue to look to these as well as other artists over winter break and going into next semester.

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