Artists
Statement
The assignment for this project was to create a relief
print that represents a conflict in your life or in the real world. Before I started this project, I had to find
a conflict in my life that was important to me. I decided on the conflict of how people
invent crazy stories of sea monsters and giant fire breathing dragons. This is a conflict that has occurred to me
several times in my life. The steps that
went into creating this work of art that were most important to me was making
the (design) and carving it into the material.
The hardest part in this project for me was taking risks in the carving
portion of the work.
My conflict was that of how humans came up with the idea
of dragons and sea monsters. Did they
actually exist of were they created in the imagination of humans. In the print, I used a technique that made
the dragon head look like it was carved into the bark of a tree or a flat piece
of wood this helped to prove that these myths are thousands of years old. When all they could do to record stories was
to write it on a cave wall or scratch it into a piece of wood.
A conscious decision I made in the process of making the
print was giving the dragon dimension in the design. When I was working on my print I used simple
shapes and textures to make the (design) easy to recognize when I started
printing. I also took some of the
background texture completely out of the (design) to make the image look like
it was pulling itself out of the paper instead of being flat and without depth.
In conclusion, I really enjoyed doing this project
because it taught me how to create texture and emphasis in carving and in the
prints of the (design). If I ever get to
chance to do another print (design), I will try to create more texture in the
main (design) of the print. In my opinion
the best part of my (design) is the Dragon Head, which was the main point. That is why I chose and enjoyed the creating
of my conflict print (design).
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