Completed Humanity Project
Humanity Project
The Humanity three day project with Faerian gallery has come to a close. I live-streamed some of my progress a few weeks ago and submitted my completed piece Seeds of the Sea. It was a great experience and I loved trying out new techniques and mixing of media. It was rough to complete with some other demands during the three day work time but I think the piece was a lot of fun and definitely taught me some interesting lessons. I’m proud and thrilled to have been selected by the panel of judges to be one of the top pieces and recognized in Faerian Gallery’s archive for the Humanity project. Minting and sales for the art begins today. More information and the full gallery of selected pieces and virtual gallery can be found in the link below:
Thanks again to Faerian gallery for the wonderful event, support and great opportunity. My piece will include the digital documentation NFT along with the physical sculpture as a bundled sale.
Seeds of the Sea
This piece started from the prompt of: a magical goddess that spreads love and nature to everything she touches. I pictured a mixing of environment and a place with a human form alongside some reference to touch or a hand. This also directed me to investigate my new technique of combining sewing and embroidery with needle felting. I had just recently made patches of felting that I embroidered in place and then felted to fabric. Felting especially with softer wool roving like merino wool has a very pleasant texture and that visual stimulus of the fibrous tactility evokes the sense of touch just from looking. This directed me to create fibre art elements such as plants, the face and cotton batting clouds. The clouds in particular were to tie in the digital drawing print of the water and boat with the 3D elements
The Digital Image
The digital art aspect I made in procreate and while it tends to blend in or be less prominent in the final piece, I think it still connects well with the rest of the area and plays with depth. The boat from the start was intended to act as a smile for the face playing with depth. I debated having the eyes be on a separate plane as well. Ultimately the eyes wound up being directly on the the face and are glow in the dark instead of embroidery based. The digital drawing is what directed me towards the batting clouds as both atmospheric addition and a solution to the suspension of the hand.
The Bigger Picture
Overall this piece further explores my work with personification and the entangling of human and place as a fluid entity. This falls in line with the works of non-literal portraiture or at least outside of traditional direct portraiture. I continue to be drawn to non-literal portraiture for a love of entangling human image with things pushed outside of humanity and to document signifiers and choice accumulation that forms outside understandings of personal identity.
This piece for example was the result of thoughts people had of me drawn on me with makeup, then transferred from my body onto paper. I have further documentation of what the images looked like before transferring them in the gallery page.
Another example is my attempt to create a fictional unit of measure that would equal a kilometre. I attempted to count all the expired pills and collect objects to equal 1000 but alas after reaching 500+ pills I could not feasibly transport 500 more objects that would be meaningful and specific to my valuing as a unit. It may not have worked out as planned but this piece documents some of my purchasing and items that are considered normal to throw away but I collect documenting various interests of mine. This piece has directed a new project of armour made from food wrappers and packaging that is still in the works.
Many of my works continue to mix human and nature with personification of places and objects in relation to humanity, an enduring theme of my work.