title: release
size: 17 inches x 22 inches
technique: CMYK screen-print, halftone screen-print, and mono print
Spring 2018
The purpose of the watercolor and half tone background was to take the image (that I took of my cousin Ruthie) and put it in this make believe setting, traveling the character in this scene to a dream like setting. The girl in the image appears to be sleeping anyway and the faces hidden in the wheat add to this fantasy place. The images hidden in the wheat are all of Brittney Spears as she was shaving her head during a huge mental breakdown which describes a lot of the emotions that I have personally been feeling this semester. The shaving of her head was her attempt at release of the build-up of emotions she had been feeling. For me, my release is my art and how I am able to be taken away to these fantasies through my own imagination and the release of emotion that occurs when I am creating something that I am passionate about.