Introducing Myself

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Jenna Benson

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SECTION 1:

This is a resin sculpture where I have created 50 plus layers of life drawings, acetate sheets and charcoal to create a liminal space to portray the transparent vulnerability of my family history, thus portraying a visual representation of how pain can turn into bravery and persist through a liminal void of suppression. 

This neo gothic turned revolutionary modernist cathedral done by Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi certainly cannot go unnoticed. It is constructed in such a beautiful manner, where light is used as a captivating vessel of neo-gothicism to navigate the intricate details of the church itself. Thus, using the stained glass windows to create an environment for reflection and portraying the religious obligation that was beautifully met using height and colour to manipulate unobstructed natural sunlight. As your eye navigates to the bottom of the church, you recognise a lesser amount of colourful filtered light, hereby creating a more natural absorption of light that gives us a conclusion that colour is used to associate with a certain degree of holiness, where the top of the cathedral represents an unattainable level that God obtains. As well as using the technique of leaded glass that creates a further dynamic and rhythmic effect, giving a vivid display that evokes life and an element of abstracted design. Hereby,  extruding the ultimate beauty of light that penetrates through the cathedral whilst achieving a sense of lightness as Gaudi aimed to achieve to make solid structures as light as a feather and to evoke the spiritual contrast of faith and emotional weight.

Soho, New York 2019 - Photograph by me

I took this image in June last year, and I personally saw its beauty through the idea of street art, where the use of public spaces and the general public become a part of the artwork. The local community becomes its home and the artwork itself becomes apart of the community. The use of acrylic and its instantaneous drying methods, exposes a sense of purity and raw emotion. Whereas oil and other methods have the opportunity to be durable and takes days, maybe even weeks to dry and where patience is key, emotion is key and unavoidable in mediums such as this one. Although other may not see this image itself as beautiful, I find the element of absolute raw emotion being expressed as beautiful.