For my project, I constructed a fish that was supposed to be a koi fish. Originally I planned it out to be more detailed, but ended up getting frustrated and made a simple base and hot glued pieces together. I did enjoy doing the linear aspect of it, I think the lines that I drew makes it more interesting on the scales, but it also kind of doesn’t look like a fish, kind of looks like a hedgehog now.

Ana Barboza is an artist based in Lima, Peru, and studied painting in PCUP. She experimented with embroidery at first with images of the human body, then expanded on into using embroidery as decorative patterns and camouflage. In her biography, she explains mostly of where her ideas start, and where they will continue to go. As of now, she is interested in the human body in relations to garments and animals with behavior. The pieces that I am most interested in, she does incredibly detailed embroidery of landscapes and plants. Her compositions start of as traditional embroidery images, but them spill out of the frames. She creates these 2d images with thread, that then pulls in the viewer and make the 3d space a part of her pieces. The thread, however, isn’t just laid about tangled and a mess, Barboza is very intentional to how she places her thread outside of the frame, most of which are netted and weaved together  and placed in a fashion that almost mimics the way plants and nature would be naturally.

Citations:

“Now Contemporary Art – Miami, Fl.” Now Contemporary Art – Miami, Fl. Web. 20 Feb. 2016.

“Embroidered Landscapes and Plants by Ana Teresa Barboza.” Colossal. 2014. Web. 20 Feb. 2016.

Trina Merry resides in NYC’s East Village, creating art in a studio at Chelsea, but her pieces are very unique in “performance” art. She uses models as a canvas for her pieces, and documents them at a specific location, creating a relationship between the subject and the location. What she creates in the connection is what she describes as a “human experience”. How Merry uses the subject in her pieces is that she makes them almost invisible. She paints them into the background, have them pose, and documents them into a photograph, having them blend into their surroundings. Although, she has also done pieces where she uses models and creates an illusion of buildings or animals out of them.

Lost in Wonder Series:

Pyramids of Giza

Great Wall of China

Stonehenge

Machu Picchu

Bridget Collins is an artist in Seattle, and graduated from Seattle Pacific University in a BA in Theater. She finds inspiration in nature, gathering foliage around her neighborhood and using them to create these organic compositions that almost seem like illustrations. Because of her “art” supplies that she uses, her art comes to life as she recreates certain pieces like Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave at Kanagawa, to arranging adorable animal compositions. Many of her works are very simplistic and have a certain aesthetic appeal to them. Though it doesn’t seem as many or any of her works are permanent in its original setting, but kept as photographs and prints. Some of Collin’s works have been done for magazines and webpages, while her other works are posted on social media for people to admire and purchase.

The Great Wave, 6″x6″ or 8″x8″ Print, mixed media

Flamingo Flock, 6″x6″ or 8″x8″ Print, mixed media

No Name, 6″x6″ or 8″x8″ Print, mixed media

No Name, 6″x6″ or 8″x8″ Print, mixed media

Minty Sainsbury studied architecture at the University of Cambridge in the UK. Graduating top of her class in 2013, Sainsbury moved to London to continue in architecture practices. Her main concern was to bring attention to the detail and craftsmanship to architectures through simplistic compositions contrasting with extremely detailed drawings of buildings. Most of Sainsbury’s drawing consist of single buildings, drawing in pencil. Some of her works are architectures that seem to “float” or sit in a blank space, while others include silhouettes of other buildings in front of or surrounding a single detailed building. By including silhouettes in her pieces, Sainsbury creates this kind of scene as if the viewer is focusing on little peeks of a building hiding behind other buildings. As of right now, it doesn’t seem that Sainsbury has had any exhibitions or been featured in galleries, but rather keeps herself known on social media and doing commissions or selling works done in her portfolio. She has however, been featured in an article on My Modern Met, where links to her blog, facebook, and instagram can also be found.

Minty Sainsbury, Milan Cathedral (9x9cm) Graphite on paper

Minty Sainsbury, St Pauls Cathedral, (56×76 cm) Graphite on paper

Minty Sainsbury, View of San Salute in Venice (100×65 cm) Graphite on paper