Grade: 12
Materials: India ink, gouache, construction paper
Dimensions: 20” × 15”
Artist Statement: How far can Humanity go? My AP Art exploration question is seemingly philosophical and simple, but it actually allows my art to be as dark as I want, or as complicated as I want. For these three pieces I was inspired by the darkness and shadows that shape the spaces we can’t see and the light that forms the spaces we can. Vaguely human creatures seem to exist in those spaces, though we’ll never really know. In creating these I use ink from a dipping pen (my new favorite art supply) that I can bleed and spread to create darkness, as well as lightly press to create thin lines. Thin lines that create a mess of doors and pipes in an industrial mass is my attempt at showing a skewed sense of scale. The scale of the subjects and locations are up to the viewer. Along with the darkness comes the light from the dabs of gouache. Orange and red marks create the fires in my drawings, always crowned with spots of bright white. I like the flurry feeling that the paint gives. The red paper makes the viewer feel that are in a subterranean space, perhaps inside a living being. Or inside a tunnel. My experiences riding the trains and seeing the darkness outside, interrupted by the occasional sparks of the metal wheels. So much darkness and so much light converging on the trains. This is the experience I try to capture in my art. I think of art as a battle between shadow and light, and these pieces are my exploration of those themes. I really hope that others will see their own images and stories in the shadow and the light of my art as well.
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