Performance: Sorting

This shows unity in that each item is separated by color and by what it is...whether it was a skittle, m&m, or raisins. This also puts emphasis on mine, as well as many others' OCD tendencies. We separate our candy out to eat it, or even just so that you can save your favorite flavor for last.

Performance: Chewing Rhythmically

First off, please turn the volume up. :) This video is to show different rhythms while you chew. Sometimes they are done on purpose..whether it's for fun or to annoy someone by your weird chewing habit, and sometimes they just happen.

Performance: Nail Polish

This performance is based on the color wheel as well as my love for nail polish. It unifies the two, as well as creates unity because of the way the nail polish is used based on the color wheel.

Performance: Highlight

 

I created Emphasis by the repetition of highlighted papers. This show's my obsessive highlighting.

Performance: Am I Pretty?

I created Rhythm through the repeated use of band-aids as well as a Focal Point that focuses on how girls mutilate their faces in hopes that they will be prettier after.

Exploring Self: I'm OfuckingKay

Exploring Space

           A scenario unfolds. You receive a box in the mail from an unknown person with CONFIDENTIAL scribbled across the top. You open it and you find surveillance footage, pieces of conversation as well as other bits of postal paraphernalia. Where did this come from? Who sent this? Why did I get this? What am I supposed to do with this information? All of these questions are running through your head. This is what I hoped to invoke with my piece – the confusion of getting a package full of surveillance footage.

In order to get surveillance-type footage I actually had to conduct my own surveillance. I put my video camera in my mailbox and recorded for two hours. I then watched the full two hours and took still shots from the footage. With these images I put a few of them on the box itself as well as spilling out from the box. They overlap like you just dumped them out and are trying somehow to make sense of them all – even though it is almost impossible. This would be my example of layering.

I then recorded conversations using a digital recorder placed inside my mailbox. With this I listened to everything and wrote down anything I could understand and that was interesting. These snippets of conversation are small and glued onto random images that do not necessarily go with the conversations. I used this combination of image and text to add to the confusion of the piece.

There are letters and numbers mixed in with the images because in the mailroom there are mailboxes numbered from one to over one thousand and the letters A through Z where the mailroom workers put packages for patrons to pick up. Everything on the piece is taped together with packing tape because that is what you would use to send a package and because it was used frequently in the mailroom. Also, not all the pieces of tape are pressed down securely because in the mail room there were instances of peeling tape. Stamps are on the piece as well because they again lead to the post office.

I really hoped to give a sense of confusion as well as an uncomfortable feeling that “maybe I shouldn’t really be seeing these pictures.” I wanted the viewer to not be able to fully understand the piece and to have to walk up to it and study the images. And even after really looking close not really understand why they are seeing the images or what they are supposed to do with the information they have been given.

Mocking Reality

Creating a foreground, middle ground, and a background by only using five shades of paper. I wanted to go for a nightmare type feel to my design which is where the vampire teeth, strange tree, abandoned cliffs, and noose come into play.

Paintings

Whipped cream on hot chocolate

Synecdoche:  This is whipped cream, cinnamon, and chocolate sauce that for me is synonymous with hot chocolate - parts of the whole drink.
Metonym: This hot chocolate in particular is a drink that my best friend makes all the time so it represents her.

Nail Polish

Icon: An icon for nail polish.

Butterfly Wing

Index: Only part of the butterfly wing is shown so it is disconnected from the whole insect.

Albino Ladybug

Metaphor: When my sister was younger we called her bug which is why I painted a bug. This is an albino ladybug which is linked to her being different - just like this bug.

Easy Mac

Symbol: The name brand Kraft is present which creates a symbol.

Eiffel Tower

Index: This is only one small part of the Eiffel Tower and if you had never seen it before you may question what it was exactly.
Symbol: The Eiffel Tower is a symbol of France - more specifically Paris. When a person sees the Eiffel Tower they automatically think of Paris
Synecdoche: This is just one part of the sights of Paris but in a sense it represents ALL of Paris and everything that a person could see there.

Panda

Icon: This is a Panda

Mickey Mouse

Symbol: Mickey Mouse is a symbol of Walt Disney and everything that is associated with him and his huge company.
Metonym: Mickey is also a metonym for the Disney internship I just got.

Converse

Symbol: These are two Converse shoes.

The way that all nine of my paintings are presented.