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Inverno
Mascherato (2007)
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Italian for ‘winter
masquerade’, this piece gives you a tranquil glimpse into
a woods clearing that echoes with both aristocratic dignity
and a sadness of longing. I used a neutral-colored board and
a specific color scheme and was happy with the results. Divided
by a stream and rooted into either bank are the masked figures
that reach out to each other in a “still dance”.
The intertwining of their hands is as close as they’ll
ever be to one another. It’s not so much the distance
that separates the two (as it tends to do for people) but rather,
how deeply they are rooted to where they already are, unable
to move. There is nothing as swooning to me as a forest of statuesque
trees covered in snow, deathly still in the moonlight. |
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In college I had
a Typography class in which we were to choose a word and illustrate
it. I had been thinking alot about what word could go with the
image I had in my mind for sometime. I guess I did the project
backwards in this way.
When I sat down to do Aristocrat,
I began getting tangled up and involved in creating each strand
of her hair and line of her dress...and I couldn't get enough
of it! As you can see, this piece forged the way for several
other cases of aristocratic hair.
When I put my piece up for the
class, the teacher initially thought the image was a computer
graphic...which I think was a good thing (?)
Approximately
8.5 x 11 |
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Grapes, Violets
& Lilacs (1998)
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Here I went again with the mounds and clusters
of detailed hair - such fun for me! For this piece, done out
of leisure, I wanted to stick with the aristocratic-feel,
but also theme a color to it. Purple has always been upheld
as a color of 'royalty', so I thought it was appropriate to
shade her this way. I wanted this lady to be more coy than
uppity, so I positioned her to look over her shoulder with
a bit more modesty. I gave the background a dreamy feel with
some curling smokey shades of purples and pinks. The small
dainty hands I put on both this lady and the original "Aristocrat"
lady symbolize the whole supposedly delicate nature that the
women were viewed to have at this time in history, but their
eyes hold the truth.
Approximately 13 x 19
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The Muses
(1999)
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(Hair, hair everywhere!)
The four ladies here each represent
a different characteristic: the lady in pink represents a curious
and playful nature, the one in green - a studious and educated
one, the one in red - sexy and confident seduction, and the
blue one - a lady with a coldly strict and proper ladylike attitude.
I realized later on why I put
the stool in front of the blue muse - the coldly strict and
proper lady...so she could take a seat and let the open-minded
women do their thang.....
Approximately
17 x 17 |
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Upperclass
Big Wigs (2000)
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