Zack Wasson

I had a lot of fun with these cyanotypes, the last image was a cliche vera I had made in highschool, so it was cool to print on the cyanotype. Overall this was a really cool process project and helped me think about light differently.

sketchbook prompt #13

My proposed work is an egg that would document when there was a Black Lives Matter protest at the Cumming Courthouse. Forsyth County’s racist history is about as blatant as it gets. On the day of the protest there were members of the KKK that threatened to violently protest us. I would want this egg (which is a public art project for Forsyth County) to be placed where there is a tree next to the old courthouse, where many African Americans were lynched. This piece could mark the beginning of a movement towards equality and peace in the county. The egg can also symbolize that this is a movement not a moment. I would love to colaborate with black artists in Forsyth County about this.

sketchbook prompt week 10. impossible ideas

sketchbook prompt 9

I have felt a lot of body dysmorphia throughout my life, especially as a gay man there is a lot of cultural beauty expectations to live up to, and if you don’t you are worthless it feels. This piece is very reflective of my own relationship with my body because I try to create a message of loving yourself and finding happiness with your own body, but often times I do not follow through with that message and I end up in a self loathing place where I become irrationally uncomfortable with myself. Beauty culture on YouTube is very interesting and these advocates of western beauty seem very fake and I tried to recreate that in the beginning. My discomfort is reflected both visually with the red pigment as a mark of shame and then also by covering my body with the large hoodie, I also pulled inspiration from Mariana Abramovic and Ulay’s piece “Breathing In / Breathing Out (Death Itself)” with the heavy breathing that sounds stressful and worrisome. The end of the performance with the condom glasses is representative of how I have to protect myself from my own perceptions and that I may only find happiness with my body when I protect myself from it.

sketchbook prompt #8 signatures

Sketchbook Prompt, Week 7- Alter Ego: Sterling Merlot

image 4- how life feels under euphoria

sketchbook prompt 5, grapefruit inspired performance instructions.

Artist Statement: My piece points a finger at anti-makers and over dramatically depicts their arguments against masks. They weaponize speech from social justice issues to make their point and believe it to be oppression. I used themes of BDSM to make my sculpture because anti-maskers feel “humiliated or weak” from wearing PPE, so I have turned PPE into their own shackles to carry. The joke of the whole sculpture is that you can easily move in and out of it, highlighting that anti-maskers are making up most of their issues out of selfishness.

sketchbook assignment 3, art walk

sketchbook prompt 1, the most powerful thing in my life, music.