Visual Communications Emphasis
BFA
Application Essay
January
22, 2013
What I Do
Currently the artwork that I have
been doing is mostly the visual communication class projects. It is much more
practical compared to what I have been doing before. My earlier work is more
along the lines of fine arts and illustration. I have found that typography is
a delight and publication design would be something that I would look into as a
possible career in the future. It is kind of strange that I enjoy this kind of
art because the majority of my art by contrast is all about the living figure. But
even if I end up doing something more digital and clean-cut like publication
design, I would still do paintings and drawings in my spare time, as well as
experiment with other mediums and ideas.
Something that I have noticed in the
work I do is that I have a range of styles that I can work with, whether it is
realism, surrealism, modernism, or Swiss design. I enjoy all of these styles. I
take pride in this variation that I have because it opens more opportunities
for me to work in, shows that I’m not afraid to experiment, and I personally
get bored and disappointed when I see that all of an artist’s work looks alike.
When it comes to inspiration, most
of it comes from (as cliché and Dali as it may sound) my dreams. I enjoy the
weird, creepy, and sometimes beautiful things that fall out of my head as I
sleep. It’s imagination at its purest. As far as reality goes, some people who
have been inspiring me lately are filmmaker Terry Gilliam and photographer Tim
Walker, which is strange because I don’t make films and I’m not really into
photography. I guess I really enjoy the way they can capture surrealism and
fantastic things in a medium that’s not two dimensional. These two and the ever
expanding list of comic book artists from the slew of comic books that I read
inspire my art (not manga, by the way). I used to strongly be inspired by my
fellow students but recently I’ve been able to better stand out and on my own
ground, whether it is for better or worse.
Something that might be lacking with
my art is emotion, or trying to convey some statement on a sensitive issue. Maybe
it’s because I’m emotionless and I don’t really care too much about any of the
big issues. So many artists try to base a whole show on feminism or
environmentalism or whatever, and my work never has anything to do with that
stuff. If it did, it would be humorous. I would rather make my viewer crack a
smile than make him or her think about how great or terrible abortion is. I
just want to have fun, not preach. I do what I do because it’s silly and interesting
and I want to capture it before it flies away, and to me that’s what’s
important.
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