Mixed Media
Mixed Media is quite the consternation for me. It is difficult to perfect the piece itself when you don’t have a complete grasp of the media in which you are working.
With mixed media pieces, it can sometimes be difficult to understand the meaning behind them due to the intricacy of the way it was created.
The first two pieces were inspired by the protestant reformation led by Martin Luther in 1517. This sparked a time of great political, religious, and social change in which the European world greatly benefited. If this had not happened, we probably would not have been able to make art without the Pope’s face on it. “Piling Up” is a representation of the pressure society places upon us. We feel the need to place layer after layer on ourselves to conform to societal normalities. These layers are created from the things out of which we were born; in this case it is paint palettes. |