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This Key Won't Work, Grace Gordon Waring
This Key Won't Work, Grace Gordon Waring
Senior Projects Spring 2019
This Key Won’t Work
I like to play with objects that are thought of as mundane. Either I make mundane objects “un-mundane” by giving them deeper meaning, or I allow their mundaneness to become more conspicuous by putting the objects in extraordinary contexts or by giving them undue symbolic importance.
During the making of this project, I gravitated toward using symbolic or familiar imagery, and the inviting image of a house was a perfect candidate for a familiar image. That is why the subject of many of the drawings I made are houses--anyone can look at that shape with five …
Monarch, Michelle G. Gutierrez Torres
Monarch, Michelle G. Gutierrez Torres
Senior Projects Spring 2019
Ben is my partner, but this piece isn’t about our love. Our personal relationship has
impacted my life in such a way that its existence marks the death of an old way of life for me.
Portraiture has always been a way for me to nurture relationships and feelings for
characters/individuals I imagine as perfect. Creating drawings in graphite, charcoal and ink let
me indulge in my desire to get closer to the subject, connecting physically with paper in
substitute of the subject. Monarch is my first divergence from my usual idealization of a person
-- I have learned to …