Experimenting with Mediums

Independent Research Capstone Project

For my capstone project, I've planned created a series of varied art pieces looking into my past in order to understand myself better in the present. My art pieces include a digital art piece, a writing piece, and a dance choreography piece. My goals were to make smaller art pieces, in various mediums, and still have them form a cohesive message, as well as exercise the mediums that I am familiar with.

The central message or theme of my art pieces is the portrayal of how past experiences can create personal struggles to grapple with in the future. That the past may weigh one down, and it takes confrontation of that past to truly release that burden.

Some of the background research I did was seeking inspiration for my own artwork. My project is multimedia, so that meant I had to look for a larger variety of inspiration, usually within the categories I gave to myself: digital art pieces, dance choreographies, and short works of writing. I then determined how to apply these techniques or ideas into my individual pieces for an overall effect, and methodically completed each piece. I let the message change and solidify with each piece, because I find that it creates a more nuanced end message.

My audience is college-aged students like me, because I feel that they would understand the message I am conveying, facing similar obstacles in their own lives. I think that anyone who enjoys the type of artworks I created may also enjoy my project.

I would like my audience to feel that the project is aesthetically pleasing, but also experience an emotional impact. I hope that the message I am conveying will reach them through these pieces. Personally, I've tried to give my all in expressing myself, and also create something I am proud of.