Leonora Carrington is by far my favorite artist. I wanted to be more artist/culture based with my piece and so I decided to explore further Nahuatl art - which composed the entirety of my IB exhibition senior year of high school. She lived in Mexico City for the majority of her life and way heavily inspired by the Nahuatl art while also incorporating her own fantastical elements into her pieces. They are both dream-like and highly skillful.
I would like to carve out an aztec god/mythical creature in the same surreal fashion - perhaps something like a chaneque. These are little creatures rumored to suck the souls from a person's body and burying them into the land. Since the creatures vary in how they look in ancient Aztec artifacts, I have a lot of freedom in the composition and proportions of such a creature, as long as I incorporate Mexica style and make sure the creature looks like a being 'beyond nature' - celestial like Carrington's work.
I looked through the artists, and feel really inspired by Diederick Kraaijeveld. I love how they layer their wood and paint accordingly. I'm going to layer my maquette like so and then cut it out accordingly with the jig-saw.
Olivia,
You have a style in your artwork for sure. I would like to hear you speak about appropriation, especially when dealing with another culture. Why create work like the aztecs versus a more contemporary expression correlated to you and who you are and possibly your ancestry?
Kraaijeveld
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