Concentration: What do I want to concentrate on? I want to focus on people, mainly people of color and especially women of color. I want to focus on the body image of the people and have them shown in odd angles, focusing on a certain part of their body and such. The people will all have different body shapes and they all will hold themselves a certain way. I was also thinking about creating merpeople and just half-human and half mythological creature characters, but maybe not. I was thinking with body images of the people, they’d have something or someone that comforts them when they feel bad about their body image or something that represents who they are as a person. Materials I was thinking about using would maybe be acrylic paint and watercolor. I was thinking I could draw the person and have colors that represent their emotions about their image around them. I was also thinking about doing prints and collaging. For each assignment I will pick a certain part of the body and have the person pose a certain way representing how they feel about that body part. Like if someone doesn’t like the way their tummy looks like, they’ll be covering it or if they love what their tummy looks then they are showing it off.
do you still love me?
Artist Statement: I don't know what it's like to be trans so I'm sorry. What I was going for was this trans male finally getting top surgery and he's happy about it, but he's sad because his parents were not one hundred percent supportive of him. He does love his parents and he's afraid that his parents don't love him anymore.
I'm not white, but that's pretty alright
Artist Statement: I wanted to make a collage full of non white people because they are so many white people.
Trident Thief
Artist Statement: In this piece, we have a merman stealing a golden trident. He's ugly and evil and doesn't care about anyone but himself.
Artist Statement: I had a sketch of one of my Kpop ocs, Mi-Young Kang. She's in a kpop group called GLam and it's an all girl group. The ideal beauty is that she's suppose to be this pale small innocent woman that is obedient and weak. Mi-Young is neither of those things. She is an independent woman who is in touch with herself and her sexuality. She's darker than other Korean pop stars and is more Western than what kpop spectrum wants her to be. This print is like a drug hallucination or trippy view of her as a person and her personality. The flowers represent the drug use or her beauty.