Journal of Student Research 2021

Holme Next to Sea

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Holme Next to Sea

Gemma Weston Senior, Studio Art with a concentration in Contemporary sculpture Faculty Mentor: Charles Matson Lume

Artist Statement: In my work, I use pathos as a means to connect with my audience. I create mixed media objects and images that embody visual characteristics of fragmentation, emotional numbness, and a paradoxical beauty in both tension and fragility. Via their transient nature, they speak about cycles in our individual and collective lives and how we naturally process them. I predominantly collect found artifacts and use raw, utilitarian materials to recontextualize their existence and relate them to the varying states of the body – anatomical and psychological. I am also inspired by the theatrics of landscape and its ability to reveal to us the overlooked gap in our humanity via its forgotten history.