Illustrating on Naturally Dyed Textile

Mansion Door

This illustration is inspired by the song “Mansion Door” by Shakey Graves. The song has this sort of haunting comfort that is shown with the use of the indigo textile and the style of the house. It is very difficult to view but the door is slightly creaked to inflict curiosity within the viewer and allude to the lyrics that state “If you knew what would happen then you’d never step foot in the mansion door”. The use of graphite makes it more haunting as it is challenging to view on the deep indigo textile and the viewer is dated to take a closer look...

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Fluxus Box

Ballad of Buster Scruggs Scrap wood, wood glue, nails, dirt, pyrite bits, rope, black, brown, and white acrylic paint, air dry clay, weathered coins, black string, and weathered rock The exterior of the box is made from scrap wood and a distress stain using a mix of several brown acrylic paints, black acrylic paint that was watered down to create a stain effect. The holes on the lid mimic the bullets shot through characters so unrealistically that light will shine through them. The box itself is meant to look like a coffin due to the fact that there is so much death within the anthologies but no coffin or burial scene is shown. It is as if there is no time to grieve in the wild west. Upon removing the lid the first layer is revealed. The five items represent five out of six stories shown within the film. The dice made from air dry clay has only 1's and 8's that references the poker hand that Buster Scruggs refuses to play that is Aces and Eights which...

Spatial Blueprint

Spatial Blueprint Wood, acrylic paints: ultramarine, light blue, white, pink, and black. The spatial blueprint depicted was inspired by my mentor's studio space. The space itself is structurally rectangular with long rectangular hallways that bring you into other parts of her house. The abstract roses that protruded from the piece are representative of all the things that extended off her walls and abstract flowers that I would observe her paint. I chose this place due to the fact I don't have many attachments to physical places but this was a place I have always found sanctuary in even after many years. The fluid design and floral attachments I made were inspired by her art that was dispersed around the studio. Each rose that I attached and painted was painted differed from each other whereas I wanted to be as abstract and inconsistent as I could get. Progress photos: This last progress picture was when I was attempting to imitate the reference pho...

Soap Carving

The soap carving reference was a bull which was a rather difficult animal to carve out of soap. The legs of it were not sturdy enough due to it being weighed down by the heavier top. The tail and horns repeatedly fell off considering they were thin pieces of soap. This project would probably have been more enjoyable if I had chosen a different animal.

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