Head Sculpture Project
Jake Manitz
Artist Statement.
"You are the sum total of all your past experiences."
The inspiration for my 3 piece head project was the primary colors: Red, Yellow, and Blue. What I tried to do was capture each color in a stereotypical way. What do you think of when you think about the color red: love, beauty, hate, rage, maybe even stop? What about yellow: happy, energetic, sunny, joyful, and busy. And blue: calm, cool, oceanic, nautical, and the sky. I tried to take these thoughts and portray them in a modern, contemporary three dimensional collage that encompasses typical teen age behavior, such as the cell phone, and computer mouse for example. I partially painted the heads, leaving the news print show. The paint was a foundation, a way of defining the additives. I did this tie all of the objects on the heads to its color. I left news print to convey a point; it doesn’t matter if you read the news or not, you are affected by what is and has happened around you. And as a second meaning, that plays off of the first: where did our ideas of these colors come from? It comes from our experiences and what happens around us. Without these ides the colors wouldn’t have their meanings. The news print is also a base, because without something to base our thoughts on, these colors wouldn’t portray an emotion or idea. Overall, the project was
• a reflection on today’s young people,
• stereotypes, which are a common occurrence in the life of a teen,
• and color, something I am greatly interested in, along with being far more intricate and in-depth than most people realize.
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