Bloom captures breaking down the realistic associations of florals through ideas of a flower’s purest qualities. Pink, yellow, and purple hues capture Spring- time florals. Such colors portray warmth; physical and emotional, wonder and growth. Small weblike lines came from inspirations of flower petals down to microscopic views. Whereas, smoke like color deposits capture the soft and environmental qualities of floral scents. While the flower form tends to be mostly symmetrical, this piece resists symmetrical bounds with its’ free flowing composition. Exterior had inspirations from a blank slate of uncharted territory when a home is something one has to redefine. The thick piles of paint are applied to the surface to mimic stucco, exterior walls of a home, and traces of topographic features from memory. The slightest inconsistencies of monochromatic hues represent an imperfect, intellectual experience of color memory. These piles are messy and organic which represent the confusion and uncertainty in the mind when one is displaced from their home. A continuation of Exterior. The minimal inconsistencies of color represent the flawed intellectual memory of color in Bedroom. This piece is on a smaller supported canvas to communicate a more intimate gaze, one that invites the viewer in for a closer look because of its’ size. Such intimacy with this painting’s size is significant because this color describes an emotional, personal memory of my bedroom. A memory which is deeply individualistic and private. This truest representation of the exact color in this bedroom are only known by a few.This reinterpreted space represents the act of searching for a home intellectually in Searching. Thin piles of concentrated textures of paint describe ongoing trains of thoughts per second. Abstract fields of color depict the vastness of the outdoors when one is displaced from their home and is in search for a new home. In addition,, small inspirations of car lights in aerial freeway patterns and city lights were represented by traces of bright colors. Bright and desaturated colors represent the gains and absences of memory in an active search for a new home.The culmination of dark and light hues are simultaneous fields of clear and obscure layers which represent feelings of the unknown when in search for a home in Vast Outdoors. These colors of paint are both desaturated and saturated to describe exterior spaces such as the vast outdoors of various landscapes. The hue choices came from ideas of different times of day in the outdoors.Behind the Linage: Agricultural Workers shows abstracted identities of farm workers/ the exploration of labor behind a bouquet of flowers to the universal tee shirt. Farm workers are tirelessly overworked and underpaid. Flowers in the mallow such as cotton, hibiscus, cocoa, and okra have an important cultural history in the world’s consumerism today.This piece was inspired by the yearning I have when thinking about my abuelita (grandmother). Her passing was deeply heartbreaking and life altering for me. She was the only grandparent who helped raise me because of this, she was the only grandparent I was close to. The hands symbolize the idea that she is physically out of touch but the notion that my family and I constantly yearn for her presence or aura back. The sense of yearning is still deeply, emotionally present to this day. I chose to depict different family members hands to illustrate the wide impact she still has on our family from the smallest grand child to her eldest adult child. I drew orbs of color in pastel to illustrate the various people wanting her back with us. We like to keep her memory alive through repeating little sayings of her’s, cooking, and bringing her up in conversations. I wanted to keep, not only how I physically remember her alive, but depict the different lives she had a deeply emotional impact on throughout her lifetime.
Selina L Arts 