60” x 108”

Acrylic paint, acrylic pen, aluminum foil, aluminum wire, chicken wire, lamination paper, papier-mâché, plastic flowers, red mesh ribbon, Styrofoam balls, trellis netting, wooden beads, wool

SPEW Artist Statement

For my last project, I wanted to display the built-up tension I have gained in my past four years at Emily Carr. Spew is a pink paper mâché head vomiting colourful bugs. My thoughts swarm and crawl in my head like bugs. These thoughts tend to be expressed very inelegantly, leading to serious cases of word vomit. I wanted my art to feel surreal and unnatural to show how I often feel. The face and bugs have exaggerated features, cartoonish qualities, and are brightly coloured to express a childish feeling. Flowers are a source of comfort for me. It represents the beauty within chaos, and how ideas can grow. Yet, the flowers are plastic making them unnatural. I used techniques and materials that I worked with in grade school; using home and dollar store items, and creating them into something different. I see this piece as an elevated arts and crafts project. In some ways I suppose I was trying to escape to my past to ease current stresses.

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