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Chiasma: Plural Selves On Ink And Paper, Sapira Cheuk
Chiasma: Plural Selves On Ink And Paper, Sapira Cheuk
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
My work depicts female sexual experience, particularly the complexity of the subject and corporeality. The series Pair, examines the notions of individual subjectivity as porous at the site of desire. These images explore moments of sensual experience - moments when the individual subject is destabilized and becomes indistinguishable from another.
Very much like the Chinese brush painting tradition of having the viewer experience the mountain and streams in performative brush strokes, I intend to capture the feeling and expression of the body and communicate the feeling of that sexualized body with a calligraphic mark. Instead of illustrating a figure's features …
Wild: Paintings Intertwining Body And Mind, Jennifer Montenegro
Wild: Paintings Intertwining Body And Mind, Jennifer Montenegro
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
I believe creativity can be a direct link to the soul, a space to have a conversation with the divine and I seek to explore this idea in my art. I also want to invite the observer to move through my work and explore the space contained within their own emotions and sensibilities, beyond boundaries, allowing the work to linger and sink in.
Translating these ideas into the form of my works, following my intuition intelligently, involves an intensive process of many layers of paint and textures combined with thread. My work involves the intersections of spirituality and art making …