gillian.gray

Dinner and a Movie Final

Inspiration: A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)

For this piece, I am looking to convey a sense of dystopia and the discomfort and disposable-ness that sometimes comes with the idea of a dystopian era. The movie in which this piece is inspired by has a dystopian feel to it, even though it is not all that far off from the current reality. The foods I used are meant to make the viewer uncomfortable by their appearance, while still remaining edible to push the disposable feeling of an era like this.

Wrapped Final

In this piece I am looking to convey the loneliness and boredom that is often felt when growing up and beginning to live on your own. Initially I wanted to portray growing up from the perspective that is more juvenile, but felt this to be more pertinent to the times of today with it not only being a lonely time in life, but also in the state of the world. Since I have been in college I have found myself alone on my couch, watching tv for hours and hours on end. The black blanket is meant to convey the darkness inside that comes with this sort of isolation, but also the comfort that can be found in being alone.

Touch

Pain

Titles: Pin Cushion & Glass

Photo

"One of the greatest riddles of biology is why the experience of pain is so subjective. Being able to withstand pain depends to a considerable extent on culture and tradition... Of course, there are those who welcome pain in order to surmount it... we also like to keep checking these limits regularly to see if they've changed"(101,102).

This excerpt inspired me to create a make a sort of pin cushion out of a couple of socks and needles as well as a visual representation of the idea of pain. To me, needles can be associated with pain in a number of ways, ad by using something like a pin cushion to represent skin, and the layers of socks creating different levels of resistance to the pins that acted as the varying levels of tolerance and/or resistance that each person has towards pain. Additionally the blanket and the wood are meant to symbolize the same thing, with the red bandana as a representation of blood, in the sense that pain can cause blood no matter how seemingly tough someone is.