This project got me thinking about the things in my life that are most important to me. So, i started pondering over the connection between the mind and the heart. Another thing i wanted to consider while making these silhouettes were the colors I was going to use. So, i got to work.

 

I remember we had a discussion in class about how scars on our bodies tell a story. So, i started looking for scars on my body. I knew I had one above my left eyebrow, as a result of a nail pentrating that area when i was 5-6 years old. I was actually riding my bike and I guess I lost my balance. Hence, hitting face first on a concrete wall, which unfortunately had a nail sticking out. It was a near death experience, as I lost alot of blood and probably would've died should I have not made the hospital in time. Anyway since it was a dark experience in my life, I chose to sketch this silhouette on black butcher paper. My experience was just a blur, I really can't remember anything and that is why I kept the whole thing black - to signify a dark haze.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For my second and third silhouettes I considered the relationship between the mind and the heart. I wanted to make a silhouette representing myself as a musician (guitarist), and something that represents my belief in love (i know there's alot of skeptics out there). So to show myself as a musician I chose to get myself sketched in a guitar playing pose, without the actual guitar. This took about 2-3 takes, and in the end I think I got it right. I chose green butcher paper because for me the color green represents fertility and creativity. Music for me is a creative process and thats what I really wanted to show.

"Let your fingers flow, he believes in music
he believes in love, paranoid maybe...
but all the strings strum together, a parallel universe to the heart
no disruption of vision, he finds it in deep (heart) (mind)
listen to him....engage yourself"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the third silhouette, as I mentioned before , I wanted to incorporate my belief in love. I tried to get a sketch of me holding my heart. I chose red paper here, because thats what i associate emotion with. In our critique sessions Samantha proposed the question of how red is red. So, i looked at color palettes in photoshop, and i came up with a color that would be most closely associated to how i feel about love (which is basically a good feeling). I came up with a bright bloody RED.

"One edge to the other,
the colors one on top of another
we reach into the distance,
there rests mine and your dream
let's hold hands and dare,
because what we say is enough,
to build from the bottom layer..."

 

 

 

For my fourth silhouette I tried to consider the relationship between the future and the past. I think I'm a person who can easily adjust to an unacceptable position by somehow forgetting the exceptance. In a way thats what I tried to depict here. I tried to show here my optimism, and my view of not dwelling on the past. In a state of mind when I purposely block out the negatives of the past and view the future as full of positives, I am at piece of mind and everything around me is like sunshine. That is why I chose to do a sketch on yellow paper. I also chose to consider the relationship between marker and pencil. The future or optimistic area was all in marker whereas the past or forgotten area was all in pencil. In a way to show that pencil is fragile like my past and can easily be erased, but then again one can wash away markers hence signifying the erasure of my future, rather than me seeing it as a bright spot. I realize my choice of material was not right here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The fifth and final silhouette was actually the one silhouette i didnt know what to do with. I tried various different poses to see if a certain pose would cause me to think in a different way. I went through about 4-5 different sketches of straight views, back views and side views before i started considering one of me sitting cross legged. I tied that into a meditation pose. Every night before I go to sleep, I consider myself as a person, what i went through during that day, what i learned etc. In a sense I consider that my daily meditation, be it for 1 minute or 30 minutes. The conclusion is always about how I feel inside as a person. So I matched my thoughts with a short lyrical piece by Daniel Gildenlow, which goes something like this . . .

"Inside I am strong, 
Inside I am free,
Inside I am young,
Inside I am still me"