Curatorial Statement
My overall exhibit displays my exploration of feet as well as an abstraction: impacts, both metaphorically and literally. I addressed concepts such as my own qualities and aspirations, both injustices and joys of society, and more solemn inner feelings. I drew from prior experiences, my day to day life, and my desires around what success in this world looks like to me. I was drawn to work in digital/screen based mediums because discovering new techniques seemed much more plausible in mediums made available by newer technologies. Still, I grew when I tried other mediums such as photography, paint, paper/collaging, drawing, and even 3D. I selected the more physical mediums to bring out the more physical attributes of feet, such as the shape and patterns of feet, which can be seen in the piece in which I used paint. However, the digital/screen based and photographic mediums were more inclined to portray the emotional and impactful side of my theme, such as the impact of people in my life like football player Domonique Foxworth and motivational speaker Curtis Zimmerman. Zimmerman is portrayed in my first Photoshop piece “Self Portrait Examination,” and Foxworth in my second Photoshop piece “Followin his Footsteps.” The coherence of my pieces revolves around this back and forth relationship between the physical: feet and metaphysical: impacts. I found that in recognizing the true value of this concept one side cannot exist without the other, as each is an individual perspective that adds value to the way the other is portrayed. I composed my exhibit so that my audience could not see it in its entirety from any single perspective, and thus would have to use their feet to change their perspective. The primary direction of the audience’s movement I intended was a clockwise circle around my structure that traversed through a more enclosed space and, in contrast, a more exposed space. The color of the structure is dull with intent not to distract from the pieces themselves. Finally, the intent of the immense size and shape is to unify my exhibit as its own entity. I wanted my audience to recognize how important and unnoticed our feet are, as well as how our actions shape the society that surrounds us.
My overall exhibit displays my exploration of feet as well as an abstraction: impacts, both metaphorically and literally. I addressed concepts such as my own qualities and aspirations, both injustices and joys of society, and more solemn inner feelings. I drew from prior experiences, my day to day life, and my desires around what success in this world looks like to me. I was drawn to work in digital/screen based mediums because discovering new techniques seemed much more plausible in mediums made available by newer technologies. Still, I grew when I tried other mediums such as photography, paint, paper/collaging, drawing, and even 3D. I selected the more physical mediums to bring out the more physical attributes of feet, such as the shape and patterns of feet, which can be seen in the piece in which I used paint. However, the digital/screen based and photographic mediums were more inclined to portray the emotional and impactful side of my theme, such as the impact of people in my life like football player Domonique Foxworth and motivational speaker Curtis Zimmerman. Zimmerman is portrayed in my first Photoshop piece “Self Portrait Examination,” and Foxworth in my second Photoshop piece “Followin his Footsteps.” The coherence of my pieces revolves around this back and forth relationship between the physical: feet and metaphysical: impacts. I found that in recognizing the true value of this concept one side cannot exist without the other, as each is an individual perspective that adds value to the way the other is portrayed. I composed my exhibit so that my audience could not see it in its entirety from any single perspective, and thus would have to use their feet to change their perspective. The primary direction of the audience’s movement I intended was a clockwise circle around my structure that traversed through a more enclosed space and, in contrast, a more exposed space. The color of the structure is dull with intent not to distract from the pieces themselves. Finally, the intent of the immense size and shape is to unify my exhibit as its own entity. I wanted my audience to recognize how important and unnoticed our feet are, as well as how our actions shape the society that surrounds us.