Natural Art

I approached this project hoping to convey the theme of life’s process of creation. I begin and end with a clock, but the symbol and movement of this image are more significant than the actual time itself. Art takes a great amount of time, but the sources from which art is derived are not linear. By including the turning pages of the book, I hoped to express the research and reexamination of ideas. I used the lighting and shadows of my hand to capture a feeling of the spirit taking form and impressing itself upon the work – it is ready to create. The roses drawn in charcoal represent a natural art, but the process is captured in a digital sphere, which fuses the two different mediums. Using the vignette effect on the second transformation really improved the focus on creation and destruction – this image is drawn and then erased. Finally, the golden revision at the end signifies the final form. The gold makes it stand out from the rest of the process, since most of the other images are black and white. By using the zoom into the middle of the flower, I am asking the viewer to take a closer look at how the work is made - such as, color and texture. I end with time rewinding in order to exhibit reflection and another moment of understanding the importance of time and duration in digital media and the creation of art.