Jordan
Faragallah.
What I wanted to explore in my sustained investigation was the relationship between people and nature. This is a personal relationship that varies from person to person, so I decided to change the relationships I portrayed from piece to piece, and used different techniques to shape the dynamic between person and nature. In my (NUMBER) piece, for example, I detailed the man, wine, and shirt but not the background, with branches and leaves in his shirt and the wine to show that they are the manifestations of nature to the figure in that piece. Nature for this person exists in its utility for him, as a shirt or drink, and not as the actual foliage that surrounds him. There is a dark outline on the hand holding the wine to emphasize the image of the hand holding the wine glass, of humanity’s dominance over nature- though this is subverted with the splash of wine out through its walls. Other pieces feature hands stripped of skin and muscle, representing the opposite dynamic. The planes with the human and nature are also important- in some pieces natural forms are relegated to the background only, and in others they cut in front of the person.
