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Fill Your Holes For No-Body, Virginia Lopez-Anido

Senior Projects Spring 2015

The intention of this project was to reference the transition from childhood to adulthood by producing a body of work that abstracts, exaggerates and reinforces certain parts of ‘the figure’. This project alludes to a psychological and emotional remembrance of puberty as an experience that introduced and questioned bizarre forms of the ‘body’. Each piece in this project is represented like an artifact and like an image in which both negotiates qualities of humor, the uncomfortable and pathos. The combination between the plaster forms and the reconstructed parts/structures furthers some sort of anxiety out of necessity or support. It also …