Artist Statement
My name is Alex and my culminating task is called Monsters in the Garden. I used photos I took at Canadale Nurseries and I incorporated drawings made with graphite into the three photos. I took the photos in October, 2018 and drew the monsters in January, 2019. I intended to mix the two mediums to create opposite pieces of art that could fit together, a peaceful garden scene with terrifyingly ugly monsters. I wanted the monsters and garden to be starkly different, similar to how a photo and a drawing are different. I drew many monsters with many different attributes but I knew my culminating activity was complete when I truly felt like the three monsters were their own characters, they all look fairly similar but I wanted each to be unique in their own way just like humans.
My name is Alex and my culminating task is called Monsters in the Garden. I used photos I took at Canadale Nurseries and I incorporated drawings made with graphite into the three photos. I took the photos in October, 2018 and drew the monsters in January, 2019. I intended to mix the two mediums to create opposite pieces of art that could fit together, a peaceful garden scene with terrifyingly ugly monsters. I wanted the monsters and garden to be starkly different, similar to how a photo and a drawing are different. I drew many monsters with many different attributes but I knew my culminating activity was complete when I truly felt like the three monsters were their own characters, they all look fairly similar but I wanted each to be unique in their own way just like humans.