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I have explored many different media during the past two years. Because I think through different artistic style will bring the viewer different feelings and better understand my theme of the relationship between technology and nature. I have also inspired by many unwell-known artists on the internet, looking through their artworks I learned some technical skills that could be used in my own art and develop into deeper conceptual ideas for my theme. Overall, I have tried mediums like acrylic on the canvas, collage, digital, carving on the rubber, ink painting, oil painting and different type of sculpture. Most of my exhibition pieces are digital because after different experiments I felt that it is easier to express my ideas through the digital piece. These digital pieces are created in Photoshop. Images in these digital pieces I got from Pexels.com as it provides royalty-free images. Through exhibiting all of my pieces together as a single showing, they have come together in coherence with my theme.

My intention for the exhibition is to create people’s impression of the relationship between technology and nature, realize the problems technology brings to nature. This will be done by presenting a combination of technology and nature. I will arrange my artworks by paying attention to the sequencing, and I will organize artworks that have similar art styles next to each other. For example, I will put my collage pieces together in the middle on a wall, put my digital pieces together in the middle on another wall. These two groups of artworks were chosen to be in the center of my exhibition is because they strongly fit with my theme, and will make the viewers better understand what I am trying to express through this exhibition. In between these two major groups of artworks, I will find some suitable spaces to place my other types of artworks such as carving on rubber, acrylic painting, and ink painting. The reason why I chose carving on the rubber is that it was my initial inspiration that came from my theme, I want the viewers to know that how I transformed my theme from initial ones to now. I wanted to have more art style in my exhibition that expresses my theme not only digital pieces and collages, so I decided to put the ink painting and acrylic painting in my exhibition.

I hope my exhibition can make a deep impression, so in addition to classifying according to the painting style, I will also adjust the position according to the size of the work, to achieve a balance of the overall vision.

I want to display 9 works in total. Although they are all light related works, they are mainly divided into digital works of art, abstract works of art and photographic works of art. I hope to display them in such a classified way, and my abstract works of art are the most and my favorite, so I will put these works in the most central and prominent position in my exhibition area, Let others feel the art that I want to express at the first sight. And digital art works or photography works will be placed on the left and right sides of abstract art works, because in fact, these works are some unexpected or special ideas or creative ideas in the process of my creation, and my original intention is still to record the beautiful light.

In addition to furnishings, I also thought that I need some spotlight with 45-degree angle, because I think that the whole work can not be well presented as I used to use light above the work in the past. I hope to show the best color rendering index. I think this will become one of my characteristics!

Starting  from  my  very  first  artwork,  I  mostly  focused  on  my  perspective.  It  came  to  me  that  it would  be  significant  for  me  to  explore  and  share  my  own  perspective  with  the  audience  first,  before challenging them to share their perspective. With this in mind, and after a long ponder, I decided to start off  with  the  basics:  discovering  and  sketching  an  unusual  perspective  that  anyone  could  possibly  come across if they pay a little more attention to their surroundings. It was as simple as that. Following this art work,  vast  majority  of  the  works  created  in  the  beginning  of  the  process  centered  around  my  own perspective.  Then  I  took  a  big  jump  to  investigate  something  wider  than  just  myself-  which  was  the perspective of people on our current society. I have also tried my best within my ability to try to create an interactive  piece.  What  this  means  is  that  the  art  work  will  require  the  audiences  to  inquire  and  feel engaged with the artwork. The interactive piece I have made is: <The Birth of 21st Century Marionette>. In  this  piece,  I  tried  to  take  the  most  out  of  an  ordinary  2-Dimensional  oil  painting.  I  have  intentionally left the top and bottom borders of the canvas blank, so that the arm of the marionette could look like it has popped out of the canvas.

Although, I now know that ‘perspective’ is a highly versatile topic, back then I did not acknowledge it. For this reason, at one point there was time in which I felt completely lost. This is when I started to directly headed into creating new artworks, excluding the planning processes. During these processes, I was able to encounter the fact that I was actually continuing to do artworks that were somehow related to perspective. Hence, I was able to learn that it is not necessary to stress oneself on being restricted to one routine and concept. But rather explore from farther view to have an entire view on something, not just part of it.

As my concept deals with wide range of aspects, I thought it would be significant to have the audiences to have a clear understanding of my concept when stepping into my exhibition space. Hence, I have decided to have the <Perspective!> as the first art work that the audiences could view. Followed by this, I have displayed art works that involved my own perspective. Especially the large Kool Koor inspired painting is positioned in the center of the wall along with the other works surrounded by it; as if the complex lines are separate branches leading to the individual artworks. Having these artworks come before the other artworks, involving more larger scale of ‘perspective’ aimed to act as an introduction to the exhibition and myself. I believe that this arrangement could leave the audiences to constantly challenge their perspectives, and widen their vision by viewing my perspective, and some satirical artworks that could raise awareness of our perspectives. All artworks are hung on the wall within the boundary of the audience’s eye level, as I wanted each one of the artworks to be viewed carefully. As well as the color combinations of the artworks placed beside one another were importantly considered to give the exhibition space some dynamics and balance.

In order to incorporate the culture from my Indian half, I decided to look into henna patterns or Mehndi. The henna and Mehndi patterns made me think of mazes as it has intertwining lines and usually layers outwards multiple times. However, I wanted to make it my own by creating my own designs and connecting it to how addictions are tied to a person once they become uncontrollable. In most Indian culture weddings, the bride is supposed to have the soon-to-be husband’s name onto their hands with henna in the middle of all the other designs. With that idea in mind in mind, for “The Eye.” I made my designs, including social media symbols, cigarettes, drugs, and other addictive substances, as well as the word addiction in Hindi “लत” (lat). I very much enjoy using objects to make a piece more original. For “An Addict’s Dialogue,” I used cigarettes and tobacco and burned cigarettes to form the letters on the piece and for “Illusion of Truth” and “Glass Box,” which are lens-based pieces where I used pills, poker cards, and poker chips as the main elements in these pieces. Lastly, for the “Not Trapped”, I made flowers, a delicate, beautiful thing, with metal wires, making it look rough and intensify the feeling of being trapped between the sturdy metal wires and to show how we attempt to justify the addictions like something as nice as flowers.

The colors I incorporated into my pieces contributed to the meaning and the impact of the pieces. Black, red and white seem to be the reoccurring colors in my exhibition because of the idea of when an individual is addicted. Their thought processes are very “black or white” which implies there are only two extreme answers with no in between, this seemed very interesting to me as many people tell addicts that if they feel like it then they should stop. However, it is hard for them for that reason in particular. The red between these two colors is an inspiration from Keith Haring, as he used a pop of color to draw the eye’s attention. Along with that, another inspiration from Keith Haring bright pink by Keith Haring’s “Crack is Wack,” where he used a bright orange.

I want the audience to be able to interpret these pieces themselves, to relate to them in a way, and give their own meaning to it, as I feel as if every individual has some sort of addiction, no matter how small or grand. Lastly, I want this exhibit to bring awareness of how an individual’s mental state may be if addicted to a substance.

The artworks are arranged in a particular way to suggest motion. The “Fluid Metals” would serve as an introduction piece to the overall exhibition and gain the views attention. It is put as the first art work as viewed seeing it for the first time would be left wondering the possible themes of such an art work.

This is where the second artwork “Glitch” comes in. The artwork acts as a hook with its vibrant colour and flamboyant display. It is also a piece of work that strongly conveys the ideas and theme of motion allowing the viewer to have a beginning idea of the theme that is displayed. The third work, “All Roads Lead to you” much like the second piece, strongly convey’s a sense of movement through patterns and repetition. When looking at the work It draws the viewers attention to a certain point. It should also be noted that the second piece has a high contrast between dark and bright colours, this allowed it to stand out against the first and third piece where as they have white bright backgrounds.

The forth piece “The Boastful Jellyfish” acts as a filler piece, it is placed next to the the third piece due to its natural colour scheme responding well to “All Roads Lead To You”. Another fact was the nature of the forth piece, it uses repetition with a twist of layering allowing the viewer to see the theme of motion.

The next piece selected was “The Swirl”. Like its previous counterpart it was chosen due to its colour scheme being blue and purple overall. This allowed for an strong contrast between the two art works. This effect of contrast is then made obvious in the next art work. “Vasasely’s Boxes” has a strong contrast of the rough background with the smooth colours of the boxes. This allows the viewer to understand the sense of layering and the idea of how a contest in style can enhance the illusion of movement. This should in turn make the view reflect on the previous pieces they had scene and view how the composition of contrast work.

The next peice “Dance of Cubic Pawns” is similar to “Vasarely’s Boxes” in that both are used a mathematical expression and complex pattens to convey the theme of motion. This time contrast was not used to suggest the theme of motion, as the two art works where similar in colour and the way it operates the illusion of movement. The 8th piece “Pipes”is similar to the previous two pieces as it operates on the same techniques and similar colouring scheme. It also creates a link to the forth piece with its similar technique in using drips of paint. This makes the viewer reflect on the placement of the art works once again, and creates a effect of “motion” where I guide the viewer to look back and forth at the artworks.

The final three pieces were put together as the all were created with the acrylic string technique.”Hell or High Water” served as the last finishing piece as it is the least obvious on showing the illusion of movement, however by now the views should have a detailed understanding of my theme, therefore allowing the viewer think and pick out the
details on how motion is portrayed.