Project Two:
For my second project, I dove deeper into my passion for sustainability. I decided to delve into the amount of plastic used in the culture around me. Beauty and lifestyle blogs are extremely popular on Instagram. Many people even as jobs by having these Instagram blogs. They are called influencers. I decided to create a lifestyle Instagram blog showcasing how much an artsy Instagram life uses plastic. Plastic is constantly being wasted around us in all the little activities we do. I then took this wasted plastic and did something with another one of my passions fashion. I created fashion illustrations out of plastic pieces. Each of the fashion illustrations is symbolic of an emotion.
Instagram account
Poems and illustrations
I created fashion illustration dresses from four emotions: sadness, love, fear and joy. Each poem is not titled so the viewer can interpret the emotion in their own way and connect it personally to themselves.
Shocking yet beautiful
In every way
Fueled by passion and strength
Nurtured by vulnerability
And sometimes pain
Enables growth
Mad, deep and real
The descriptive
Indescribable
Red
In every way
Fueled by passion and strength
Nurtured by vulnerability
And sometimes pain
Enables growth
Mad, deep and real
The descriptive
Indescribable
Red
From the tips of fingers
To the strings on a heart
Awakens the soul
From the inside out
Turns on a new light
Shining through the skin
The face twitches
It feels like
It is a smile
Yellow
To the strings on a heart
Awakens the soul
From the inside out
Turns on a new light
Shining through the skin
The face twitches
It feels like
It is a smile
Yellow
It never comes unnoticed
Often unwarned or unexplained
And it flows
Through veins to hands
Left trembling and weak
Until it shows
All at once
Tears bubble up under eyes
Fall down cheeks
Blue
Often unwarned or unexplained
And it flows
Through veins to hands
Left trembling and weak
Until it shows
All at once
Tears bubble up under eyes
Fall down cheeks
Blue
Pokes at the weakness
Pulls away
Prevents full potential
For love and passion
Until all you can do
Is hide
It shocks the wrist
Pushing and pulling
Until you say NO
Gray
Pulls away
Prevents full potential
For love and passion
Until all you can do
Is hide
It shocks the wrist
Pushing and pulling
Until you say NO
Gray
My Experience
In this project I learned about who I am as an artist. Most of these pieces had little planning. I planned the colors I wanted to use but the rest happened through process. I cut apart plastic into different shapes that I thought represented emotions based on personal experience and that of my peers. I laid out the pieces and put them together in different ways. I now know that my artistic process does not thrive by specific plans but by learning through creating. It was really amazing to learn about my process.