IGCSE May/June 2022 2nd Final Piece
Theme/topic : Isolation & Connections
Isolation & Connections progress and experimentation stage
Details
Annotation for the Isolation & Connections final piece :
I distorted the images because I wanted people to feel confused and unsettled. The distortion shows no face nor emotion but I want to convey to people how scary it felt to experience so many things at once. The contorting of my face on the bad side is due to the confusion of my own feelings. I didn’t know what to do, who I was and all my emotions were around the place.
The reason I did it on the good side as well was because there were so many wonderful memories I made with friends however it was hard to recall certain parts of it which made me feel unsure about my own thoughts and memories.
The reason for the background being textured it because I wanted everything to be chaotic to show that it was hard for my to find peace through all the things going on. The reason why I chose pink and black is because the 2 colours represent how I feel best and when painted on a cavas, the black seems unsettling but the pink looks beautiful which contrasts each other.
By using clay to make the foods that are supposed to go on the canvas, it represents my happy memories and also freedom due to the fact that clay can be moulded into everything and anything you want. I tried to paint it as 2D as possible since I wanted it to resemble children’s toys.
I wanted to sew as well in this piece because it is supposed to represent the good that put me back together. In a way fixed me. When something breaks, we tend to try and fix it and for myself i felt like sewing represented it the most because it shows imperfection as you are trying to heal.
