"The Backyard" by Jordyn Freeman
Oil Paint
10’’ by 8’’
The core ideas I am currently exploring in my work revolves around the themes of vulnerability, self protection, gender, religion, and identity. Specifically, I have been researching through text and experimentation how religious symbols in christianity have been reappropriated throughout time and how that can affect the subconscious perception of objects, architecture, and identity. I have been exploring how I can further abstract these kinds of repurposed symbols as something that allows an unknown familiarity and evokes a more in depth experience of emotion. The use of these abstracted religious symbols and imagery is to build upon the fervent atmosphere that traditionally religious spaces generate, however the emotional feelings associated with this imagery becomes recontextualized. Embedding these elements within the context of human feelings and the natural world brings questions about the individual experience of vulnerability and how it relates to the universal human experience. While the viewer is encouraged to interpret my work by means of their own emotional experiences and memories, the sense of community within the environment of the work is reinforced with the feelings generated through the experience of this object. Much of my sculpture and illustration work uses the confrontation of vulnerability and the self protection that follows, but allows for it to also be a bittersweet experience that gives an opportunity to recognize the relationship of care and connection that is instilled in those themes, whether in one’s self or unto others.
Oil Paint
10’’ by 8’’
The core ideas I am currently exploring in my work revolves around the themes of vulnerability, self protection, gender, religion, and identity. Specifically, I have been researching through text and experimentation how religious symbols in christianity have been reappropriated throughout time and how that can affect the subconscious perception of objects, architecture, and identity. I have been exploring how I can further abstract these kinds of repurposed symbols as something that allows an unknown familiarity and evokes a more in depth experience of emotion. The use of these abstracted religious symbols and imagery is to build upon the fervent atmosphere that traditionally religious spaces generate, however the emotional feelings associated with this imagery becomes recontextualized. Embedding these elements within the context of human feelings and the natural world brings questions about the individual experience of vulnerability and how it relates to the universal human experience. While the viewer is encouraged to interpret my work by means of their own emotional experiences and memories, the sense of community within the environment of the work is reinforced with the feelings generated through the experience of this object. Much of my sculpture and illustration work uses the confrontation of vulnerability and the self protection that follows, but allows for it to also be a bittersweet experience that gives an opportunity to recognize the relationship of care and connection that is instilled in those themes, whether in one’s self or unto others.
Oil Paint
10’’ by 8’’
The core ideas I am currently exploring in my work revolves around the themes of vulnerability, self protection, gender, religion, and identity. Specifically, I have been researching through text and experimentation how religious symbols in christianity have been reappropriated throughout time and how that can affect the subconscious perception of objects, architecture, and identity. I have been exploring how I can further abstract these kinds of repurposed symbols as something that allows an unknown familiarity and evokes a more in depth experience of emotion. The use of these abstracted religious symbols and imagery is to build upon the fervent atmosphere that traditionally religious spaces generate, however the emotional feelings associated with this imagery becomes recontextualized. Embedding these elements within the context of human feelings and the natural world brings questions about the individual experience of vulnerability and how it relates to the universal human experience. While the viewer is encouraged to interpret my work by means of their own emotional experiences and memories, the sense of community within the environment of the work is reinforced with the feelings generated through the experience of this object. Much of my sculpture and illustration work uses the confrontation of vulnerability and the self protection that follows, but allows for it to also be a bittersweet experience that gives an opportunity to recognize the relationship of care and connection that is instilled in those themes, whether in one’s self or unto others.