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Final Project: Frame by Frame animation

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The reason I chose these art pieces is specifically because they represent the concept of a controlled but expressive chaos through the artists' use of simplistic, recognizable shapes and turning them into a familiar and coherent form. Raja Ampat by Helen Marden is a perfect example of this show's theme; despite the visual look that's reminiscent to something like paint splatter, each stroke and splash comes together to simulate the form of the human head through our own pattern recognition. Using these unconventional means of creating form, Marden was able to train the eye of her viewers into physically seeing the image she wanted to invoke. I decided to focus in on this sort of theme because I've always been very interested in the human form within art being expressed through more than what we know just naturally recognize. That's why I picked these pieces that aim for that goal. Every other work in this show achieves the same level of mastery over form using chaotic imagery and simple colors and shapes. The physical space chosen for the exhibition of Controlled Chaos was deliberately picked because of its contrast to the works in the show. I put all these pieces, which before as said invoke a sense of chaotic but familiar imagery into a setting where it is the antithesis of that. By hosting the show underwater within a sterile and controlled environment such as a submarine, I'm placing these vastly different visuals into a calmer, sterile environment, which makes their original nature shine even stronger. Not just the atmosphere but the ambient lighting also lends to this as well, working in tandem with the works to create these contrasted visuals. Each piece plays to its strengths well here and I believe the show utilizes its more weirder aspects to emphasize the theming to greater success.

This sculptural piece, made by Beth Collar, was featured at the 2018 "Fatal Attraction" exhibit at the Thames-Side Studios Gallery in London. It was first premiered at Collar's Seriously exhibition in 2017 at the Standpoint Gallery in London.