Recent Warp Book Pieces

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Inside landscape 

(Louise Nevelson ) mixed media 

For my Nevelson piece I decided to create a collage based on Louise's interpretation of the color black being the totality of everything or all that could be in the universe. I wanted to create a self-scape or internal landscape made of many parts . I used national geographic magazines to come up with a collage composition that would work with my vision and then treated the pages with citrasolv to create the patterns and liquid feeling in the paper pieces and to tie all the collages pieces together . 

Sama Vritti Pranayama (Alexander Rodchenko ) 4x6 photo print 

This was my piece for Rodchenko, I chose to investigate constructivism coming to the understanding that it was art for everyone . I played with the idea of practicality and functionalism and wanted to create something fundamentally useful for the general public, staying away from metaphor . After reading about how Rodchenko was said to have among some of the artist that influenced the minimalism movement , I chose reduce all human functions to one thing, breath, and base my piece off of that .  I wrote a one minute breathing exercise and printed it on photo paper. The piece consist of 15 lines, each an instruction to breath in or out through the nose for four seconds totaling in 60 seconds , therefore being a one minute exercise. I chose to space out each of the four letters in the word f-o-u-r to demonstrate the steady length and space between time in each of the four seconds of intake or outtake of air . 

Piece for Louise Bourgeoise

The piece I made for Bourgeoise is a mixed media representation of a disturbed body . I used very thick bright colored acrylic paint to drop down sudo human shapes that would give the illusion of body parts . I then covered the parts in very thin, liquid black acrylic paint  and let them dry . I arranged and secured the parts in a way that would give the illusion of broken or torn apart female body parts including an ear, arm, breasts, and pelvis.

When the piece was due the colorful acrylic paint was completely wet inside the shell of black paint therefore the slightest touch or press down of the black to any body part would cause the vibrant paint inside to bleed out of and come through the black.