After five sleepless nights working, I finally finished my final art project. My professor gave us the prompt animal, vegetable, mineral... then said run with it. I was inspired by malachite. After making a series of thumbnail sketches my professor pointed out that the most interesting thing I was doing was expounding upon the swirling nature of the stone and its various shades of green. Here's a really terrible photo of the final product taken with my laptop. I'll put up a proper photo when I get the time. Instead of being limited to making a plain print I made dozens of screen printed circles and swirls and then cut them out and layered them. I used the glass display case to ground the instillation. Then I built upon that and let the additional shapes break out onto the wall. The enclosed section represents the practice of removing nature from its native environment in order to catalogue, sell, carve, display, and then forget about nature. This attempt to understand the world around us, to confine it to the parameters of our imagination. But this is impossible. Nature is abounding, brilliant, understandable and yet at the same time unfathomable. The parts that break away from the box therefore represent this unbounded, and powerful nature that refuses to be confined by, or confine, any species that shares the earth around it.
