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Artist's statement:
UNIFIED TILE
Jiwon Yoon B-4
Almost as always, I had trouble deciding what exactly to do for my tile. Tons of ideas flipped through my mind: New York City? Windmills? A bridge? A clock tower? We weren’t very limited in our choices but I still had a hard time choosing...maybe because of the very fact that we had so many choices. In the end, I went with a socio-political piece on the dying Great Barrier Reef of Australia.
I took environmental science last year. Though the science behind the concepts wasn’t particularly...invigorating, the environment does matter. One class, Mrs. Brodhead told us that the Great Barrier reef in Australia was dying. Climate change was killing the reef, but nobody really seemed to care. One look at the group photo of Green Club & the trash sometimes left around demonstrated just how much the wellbeing of the environment concerned the student body.
The utter lack of response to the matter struck me & stuck with me. Strangely, around the same time, I was noticing how many odd and interesting shapes inhabited the reef--how creative mother nature was. I was taking AP Drawing and we had learned about the importance of appreciating nature in AP Lang via Ralph Waldo Emerson, and I just thought about what a shame--that such a beautiful thing was dying, and here we were, not caring and not appreciating.
I took the risk of choosing glaze over acrylic paint. Several past instances indicated that I didn’t have a natural aptitude for glaze, but I’m glad I did because it came out nice! The beauty of the reef was what I wanted to emphasize, because the beauty is what really helps people appreciate it, and I think the glaze did a nice job. It definitely gives a different feel from acrylic paint.
UNIFIED TILE
Jiwon Yoon B-4
Almost as always, I had trouble deciding what exactly to do for my tile. Tons of ideas flipped through my mind: New York City? Windmills? A bridge? A clock tower? We weren’t very limited in our choices but I still had a hard time choosing...maybe because of the very fact that we had so many choices. In the end, I went with a socio-political piece on the dying Great Barrier Reef of Australia.
I took environmental science last year. Though the science behind the concepts wasn’t particularly...invigorating, the environment does matter. One class, Mrs. Brodhead told us that the Great Barrier reef in Australia was dying. Climate change was killing the reef, but nobody really seemed to care. One look at the group photo of Green Club & the trash sometimes left around demonstrated just how much the wellbeing of the environment concerned the student body.
The utter lack of response to the matter struck me & stuck with me. Strangely, around the same time, I was noticing how many odd and interesting shapes inhabited the reef--how creative mother nature was. I was taking AP Drawing and we had learned about the importance of appreciating nature in AP Lang via Ralph Waldo Emerson, and I just thought about what a shame--that such a beautiful thing was dying, and here we were, not caring and not appreciating.
I took the risk of choosing glaze over acrylic paint. Several past instances indicated that I didn’t have a natural aptitude for glaze, but I’m glad I did because it came out nice! The beauty of the reef was what I wanted to emphasize, because the beauty is what really helps people appreciate it, and I think the glaze did a nice job. It definitely gives a different feel from acrylic paint.