Monday, February 24, 2020

Touch Project

Touch Project

 Frankenstein's Monster
14 inch by 18 inch
Acrylic on Black paper

Pain
"Even intense pain often eludes accurate description, as Virginia Woolf reminds us in her essay "On Being Ill": "English [...] has no words for the shiver and the headache ... let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry."'
-Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses

Artist statement:
I've been dealing with chronic headaches and migraines since I was a preteen. I've tried various painkillers; some work, some don't. It's been taxing on my mental health and is not explainable to someone who suffers an occasional head pain. I used the complimentary red and green colors dulled down, as well as a monstrous figure, to try to show the grotesqueness of chronic pain.


Cat-too
6 inch by 4 inch
Acrylic on black paper

Tattoos
"Those with tattooed faces, hands, and heads have chosen, in a way, to seal themselves off from normal society forever"
-Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses

Artist statement:
I found it interesting that this segment comes right after 'animals', who Ackerman says also rely heavily on touch, so I made a lighthearted print of a mean-looking cat with a tattoed back and leg. This cat and I (who have four tattoos) are permanently and uniquely different than our furry or skin-clad peers.

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