Since there wasn't enough time for the class to look at work, i'll post what I have done so far on here. Hopefully you guys, at least some of you, take the time to give me some comments, suggestions, etc. I'm beginning to believe that my work isn't quite interesting or attention grabbing as I hoped it would be. Has it gotten to the point where art is a means of illuminating critical thought oppose to a simple recording of the everyday of our society? To bomabrd the viewer with ideas and critical thinking? and I have to ask, am I once again the only painter?

Anyways, here's my proposal...


In regards to the structures of the everyday life, I feel that within our society, there are a constant number of stories and events that unfold and strike us every day. We learn about these events, often tragedies, via the media, whether it be the television and/or the newspaper. When we hear or read about these events, we as a society react in a variety of ways, and sometimes we share a similar concern or lasting impression of what transpires through these everyday occurrences. Basically these events presented to us connects as an entity.

For example, awhile ago, before we were told that the remains of the little girl Cecilia Zhang were found, much of the public hoped and prayed for months, that the little girl would be found and come home safe, and together they mourned her and sought to provide solace to her family in some form. A more recent event would be the mother who jumped from a bridge along with her young son. Together members of our society came to together to place flowers, cards, and other objects along the spot where the mother jumped. Events like these are examples of stories presented to us and in turn affects us, and this happens on a day to day basis. When we here tragedies like these, we often raise those unjustly treated onto a high pedestal, and treat and honor them as though they are figures of worship (jane creba to some regard), and in a sense this structuralizes our everyday relationship towards those events that surround us.

As an artist, I wish to represent these events through narrative paintings, that of which communicates these events to the public in a way of which is different from television or the newspaper. Because the events presented to us are narrative in nature, I am choosing to present these events similar to the way events were depicted within the time period manuscripts and miniatures were being used to tell these narratives and communicate them to the public. Having an interest in medieval art and using it as a influence in much of my previous work, I wish to continue using this influence and hopefully progress my work and as an artist.

I feel that the my choice and use of color will prove effective in grabbing the attention of the viewer, and my creative way of depicting these everyday events in a perhaps childlike manner, will gain the interest of the audience.