The Cipralex Effect
Acrylic on Canvas and 3D Blender + Premiere Pro
I started this piece with the one with a pill, attempting to express the emotional turmoil of feeling lost and hopeless towards art while pretending that everything felt fine. The dichotomy between how I felt and how I portrayed myself led to feelings of constraint in which I felt trapped. To express my emotions, I used my artistic voice, the only medium I felt entirely comfortable with, allowing those feelings to flow from me and onto the canvas. The colourful choice of pastel pinks and purples represents how I tried to appear before others, while the juxtaposition of the trapped human body represented my repressed emotions. Through this process of exploration, I continued to create other pieces in which I developed my examination of self into a message of emotions both for myself and for the viewer.