Description of Work

Projection - 2022 - Digital Illustration and Video - NFS

Artist's Statement

The primary motivation for creating Projection came from an overwhelming sense of balancing creative work, school work, and having a mentally taxing job. This digitally painted triptych reflects the role monitors/screens play in our lives, even when they aren’t present.  All of these motivators in some capacity have a monitor or screen present, but with each of these paintings the monitors begin to take on different shapes, ones that can easily warp or exaggerate a specific feeling associated with them. Projection is different from most of my personal work, as it focuses closely my emotional connection to the scenes depicted.

Projection is displayed on three separate monitors to mimic the triptych format. To help connect viewers to the concept that monitors have a presence that allows them to invade and be overwhelming in one setting, while also coexisting or be completely absent and unmissed in another. Although these primarily function as digital paintings, I have added an element of motion to make each environment feel like a living space. Projection as a whole required looking deeper into a topic than I was comfortable with, exploring aspects I had never critically tackled in any of my previous works. Many of the choices made with this triptych evolved after revisions from a previous ideas that were similar but needed more time to develop as I gained more insight.

If you wish to purchase any of these pieces, please contact the gallery director, Jacqueline Nathan (jnathan@bgsu.edu.)