LAUREN E. C.

Serial Working: On Paper The Place and Clay Falls Acrylic, ink, graphite, and oil on paper Based on the style of Friedrich Kunath, I aimed to make surrealist depictions of locations from my childhood. The Place was somewhere my sister and I would play and relax. It was our private escape. It was our magical root stretching across the creek bed, perfectly placed by nature just for us. Clay Falls was a place of inspiration and disappointment. The white clay by the water promised sculptures and pottery, but was filled with tiny stones, proving unmoldable.  There was also a wonderment about these locations. I attempted to capture it in my art. I wanted to use Kunath's strange style of imagery to highlight childlike imagination. It is difficult, then, not to be consumed by my own nostalgia for the forest. A part of me fears that that is exactly what I've done. However, in order to be completely honest to these locations, it was necessary that I didn't entirely eliminate th...

Serial Working: Off Paper Left to Right Video Tasked with creating videos demonstrating movement, my initial thought was to do something with my hands. My idea was to create short videos in which I attempt to do things with my left hand to the same level that I do them with my right hand. I have always been fascinated with the idea of ambidexterity. My father and grandfather are both ambidextrous, and when I was little, I wanted to be like them. However, I could never quite get the muscles in my left hand to cooperate like I can with my right. This has never stopped my from trying. In the first video, I am trying to catch a ball with my left hand. First, I show myself catching it with my right hand to establish a baseline which I'm trying to achieve, and then I am repeatedly attempting to catch the ball with my left hand in a similar manner. In the second video, I am attempting to draw in a simple, circular motion equivalent to my right hand. This was something I used to do r...

Seeing Through Line: Yarn Untitled Yarn, tape In class:  Out of class:

Contour Without Line Flesh Paper           In order to create lines without using traditional mediums, I recalled wrinkles in paper that created lines, but I didn't want to just ball up a piece of paper. Instead, I wondered how wrinkles in paper might mimic wrinkles in skin, so I decided to create a face in the folds. I spritzed the paper with water and began the task of somehow molding this two-dimensional plane into a wrinkly old face. With the water, the paper became soft and malleable, perfect for crinkling, but also very frail. At first, when I accidentally ripped a hole in the paper, I was upset at myself. But then I realized how well it fit into what I was trying to convey. A wrinkle in skin never becomes unwrinkled, just like how a wrinkle in paper, a deep crease, can never be completely fixed. A rip, then, is just the same. It showcases the fragility and mortality of a face.            A wrinkle free face a idealized b...

Line That Creates Space Forest Graphite, paper                      The idea for this project was to create a map for something that isn't a place. I decided to create a literal road map or a tree. I wanted to highlight the lack of nature in highly industrialized areas by showing buildings and roads replacing trees, and, in this case, becoming them.

Walk the Line College Town Video           For this project, I walked very slowly down St. George Street, then sped up the footage to make it appear as if I am moving at a normal rate, while everyone around me is moving quickly. I wore a Flagler College sweater to signify that I am a student. This is an idea I had had earlier and considered doing for the One Mark Against Many project, but decided it did not neatly fit the criteria, and scrapped it. I was thankful this assignment happened, because I really enjoyed this concept.           As a college student, or perhaps, as a person who has only recently been thrust into the throngs of adulthood, I am left with an ever-present consciousness of time and its constant passing. I am nearly halfway through my undergraduate education, yet it feels like I just started this year. It's difficult to wrap my mind around the idea that everything I currently know will be gone before I have ...

Serial Working: Proposal           Artist: Friedrich Kunath           Style: Kunath has a very naturalistic style when it comes to figures and landscapes, but often mixes the two to create almost surrealist imagery. He also uses different aspects in his works, such as sheet music or architectural design in his mixed media works. Typically, he uses a combination of acrylic ink, sometimes adding in oil paints or pencil.           Content: Many of Kunath's paintings deal with love or a lack thereof, such as his works  Gee, It's Nice to Be Alone , A Brief History of Love , and I may not be 100% happy but at least I'm not with you . His paintings often touch on ideas of loving another, loving oneself, or the concept of a happy couple. His use of color is vibrant, typically opting for colors that mimic the sunset, which give the paintings a heavy, almost dark feeling.           P...