3D art
Recently, I have started to make more art with my hands, and the more that I do it, the more I enjoy the tactile process of experimenting with various physical mediums.
HOW YOU SEAM
I created this as a way of exploring the grief I have experienced after losing my mom when I was very young and now struggling to understand and conceptualize who she was.
This piece speaks to the constant work of stitching together the pieces I have of my mom - memories of her, stories people have told me, and videos and pictures I have seen - in an attempt to create her into a full person in my mind.
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I intentionally chose a muted color pallet and a visibly chaotic energy to emphasize how blurry these pieces become and how that leads to an unclear conception of who my mom was.
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The blank areas allude to how this work will never be completed as I will forever be missing pieces of who she was because she is not here to fill them in.
AN ODE TO
IRIS APFEL
Iris Apfel first became a part of my life when my mom and grandmother took me to an exhibit of hers when I was six years old. To this day, I can still see the igloo that was on display with the collection.
And since then, she has been my go-to for inspiration for all things maximalist and colorful and bold.
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A few months before her passing, I created this wire portrait of her in order to hone my wire skills and have yet another excuse to talk about this fabulous woman.
