This is a piece I made for the Sense of Self Exhibition: Accessible Art and Disability Studies, an exhibition in the Broad Art Museum for the visually impaired. My piece was based off a literary work titled “Gazing into Twilight” by Sarah Farnsworth. I incorporated straw and sawdust into my piece to provide texture and added the lights as another element to touch, feel, and see. The link for the exhibition is at https://www.exceptionsjournal.com/blog/2017/11/sense-of-self. Below is the poem in which my painting was based off of:
Gazing into Twilight
Gazing into the peaceful, smoky twilight,
vision skewed by the setting sun
spilling over the horizon
with its pinkish, yellow glow,
you could hear the shadow’s laughter
jumbled among the whispers
of the towering brown trees,
telling stories of unseeming truths.
The smell of spring exploding
in your nose as you
breathe in the beautiful blossoms,
popping back to life after the
quiet, dead winter.
You would dance through the narrow river
and feel the cool water splashing
between your playful toes.
But soon dusk disappears,
the shining of the dark, gray moon
slowly taking over,
as the forest begins to doze off,
welcoming the night’s silence
patiently waiting for
morning to come again.
This piece is titled "Dimensions". I was inspired by the idea of dimensions and how we only live in three (or four, if you include time), yet there are believed to be many others. In this piece, I created another dimension using different colors and shapes.
This piece is titled "Hotel Painting". In my painting class, we were challenged with creating a piece with as much saturated color as possible, that would also fit nicely in a hotel lobby.
This piece is titled "Rainy Saturday".