My Perception of You Is Not Linear
Dakota C.
watercolor paper, Cray-pas oil pastels, watercolor, colored pencil, black sharpie.
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My Perception of You Is Not Linear chronicles the anthropological desire to be perceived, yet the more inescapable reality of being seen. Here, the woman facing the window is surrounded by framed artwork of her favorite media, eager to be perceived through the myopic lens of her favorite artists. Yet she is observed by an outside source she wishes to reject; in expressing interest in material things, she becomes complicit in assimilation, offering her body to the very gaze she resists. My process in creating this work was sporadic. I would return to it between other projects, adorning her walls with what fascinated me at the moment. This piece became an exploration of the tension between being seen and being known, and the initial joy of cathecting with media that feels like armor.
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To me, creativity is rhapsodic curiosity. I am sustained by the excitement that pain and suffering are as artfully redeeming as the curated patterns I inhabit or experience. The gift of assigning poetic meaning to my circumstances is what urges me to turn them into art.
