What drove me to the concept of my senior thesis was inspired by a painting I created over the summer along with a project from last semester. This black woman with light blue haired finger waves-- the waves have become waves quite literally! She has become part pf the sea, along with shell nails.The painting is inspired by themes of summer along with an influence of human attributes based on my roots in Caribbean Culture-- my mother is Panamanian and my father is Jamaican. The piece was influenced by my imagination, thus creating surrealism art style. The project from last semester was a series of illustrations that was inspired from Langston Hughes poems that I really enjoyed. While reading poetry, as a visual person, I picture many images in my mind and wanted to add a visual story to the text through my imagination. Each art piece is in correspondence with a poem about the Caribbean and my surrealist spin on the environment it is describing. The goal is to incorporate human attributes in environmental spaces to portray a fantasy aspect but also exhibit the trueness of the fact we are all part of nature. As well as to remind viewers to feel immersed in the environment while reading the text.
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