Fragments of emotions

Dimension: 381 x 508mm

Material: illustration board, acrylic paint, 4B pencil, box cutter

Description:

I am the teenage girl who tries to hide her emotions by maintaining an expressionless face, because I don’t want other people to feel uncomfortable or any conflicts to occur. I drew my face from a different angle, pose, and facial expression using extreme colors to express that there are a lot of emotions that I am hiding behind my expressionless face. In the center, I drew my neutral facial expressions I usually have. I only used pencils to look more frigid. With a rough touch and reddish colors I wanted to show my anger. On the top, I tried to demonstrate the goals that I have and my gloomy future. The galaxy symbolizes my dreams and the star expresses all my sweat and tears to reach my goal. I used blue tones to give a depressive mood. On the left side, I drew my happy face with tears. By using bright tones and pop-art I tried to give a refreshing tone. However if you see it carefully, you can see the crying face colored with grayish yellow. This tells that although I’m smiling in front of people, I always have sadness inside me. It both contrasts and shows my ironic feelings. On the last step, I sculpted the illustration board into shapes. If you see it carefully the shapes are all different, which expresses my fragments of different feelings bursting out.