Q2 Art Project Mixed Media

Artist Statement

For my Q2 project I had created a mixed media project, combining three different forms of art. Why I choose to do this project is for the simple reason that it stuck out to me the most, I was inspired by the different Japanese forms of mixed media. How I came up with the idea of my art piece was I wanted to create something that combined, painting, comic book art, psychedelic art and something physical that represents art and beauty. That was my general Idea but it was still hard to figure out on how I would bring it together for it to look pleasant and immaculate to the eye. I went along with my Idea painting a yellow, purple and orange background, drawing a skull in black and white as a form of the comic book art to add to the painting, and then after that along the way things came to me and I was adding other physical portions. Creating my art piece I realized I wanted my art piece to represents life and death, being connected to art. Each physical piece representing life and death but being a form and tool of art. My art piece represents that life is a beautiful form of art that can be created and erased, such as life being creating and taken away, but life will always remain beautiful. The more life expands the more beauty that is created, when a life is created another one is taken away. There are new beautiful art pieces created everyday that represents life, and there are others that are eventually taken away or discarded, such as life not lasting long. This art piece is important to me because when I see life I sometimes see the very art within it. The eraser represents life being erased, the black pencil is that death is created, and the regular pencil represents that life is created, the rubber bands represent the expansion of life, the skull and blood also represent death. The butterfly represents the beauty of life, and so does the flower, I wrote life in Arabic, because life is universal in all forms of language. The orange, purple and yellow represent that life is also colorful and comes into many colors, and they are an example of that. Color is a form of beauty, art, and color comes from life.