Amanda Baron: Thesis

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Two Becomes Three

Two Becomes Three: Long quake of Infinity
45X33 inches

Inkjet print and acrylic

April 2012


Two Becomes Three: Welcome to the New World (Love, Mom and Dad) 45X33 inches Inkjet print and acrylic April 2012 Amanda Baron

Two Becomes Three: The Stranger and the Beast
45X33 inches

Inkjet print and acrylic

April 2012

This is the final series within my thesis body of work called Feel Good Laust. Through digital collage and photo manipulation I constructed these images and once printed, worked into them with acrylic paint. The title Two Becomes Three, is fitting for this series because the introduction of two figures always resulted in a third, unexpected element. It was drawn from a quote by Plato where he suggests that two is a "non-number" because it always suggests three. Please note that the original digital files for this series are lost and now exist as original pieces of artwork.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Preview

(Currently Untitled)
Digital Collage
33X45 inches

A little peak into my final series in my thesis

Friday, February 24, 2012

The Great Discovery


The Great Discovery Digital Collage/ Painting 44X60 February 2012

Monday, February 13, 2012

Being and Ambivalence


Being and Ambivalence Digital Painting/Collage 44X60 inches February 2012

Friday, February 3, 2012

(From behind the Shadows)

(currently untitled)
Digital Collage/ Painting
44X60
January 2012


(currently untitled) Digital Collage/Painting 44X60 January 2012

Friday, January 20, 2012

Sneak Peak

Digital Collage
44X60 inches
January 2012

Here is a sneak peak of a new series I am working on for my thesis. The final intent is for the prints to be mixed media over digital prints.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Thesis- End of First Term

For my thesis I have been developing a body of work under the idea of the alien. In doing so, I have moved away from its extraterrestrial connontations and adopted it as my own noun to describe the foreign nature of the self. Drawing inspiration directly from existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger, issues of the human unknown and alienation emerge; alienation originating within the self and the other, as well as the idea of the gaze and shame, our loss of identity and nature, but also our freedom within our nature. I believe we experience the struggle of our condition every day in our growing world. This lead me to my experimentation with digital painting, where I expose and submit to the pressures of technology and modernity. Within the separation of the hand and the work I quite literarally become estranged and subjective to my art, which makes it un-precious, ever changing and free of purpose. I have illustrated its evolving nature by painting over some of my digital works with oil paint, some change little where as others have been demolished. After working with oil I retreated back to the brush and palette and made a series of simple, emotive paintings, to, as a way “retreat back to my home planet” and re-adapt from the foreign digital reality.

My processes are very important to my work because it illustrates the anxious nature of art and of being human. How as intelligent and adaptive creatures we have no nature and lack purpose in the world thus we must constantly be creating our own purpose. In doing so, we can become monstrous, estranged, detached or completely succumbed by the imposition of “the other”. Thus, to reconcile living as an individual one must first adapt to living as an outsider or, Alien and embrace its many forms within the human condition and be free of its restraints.