Statement

     My work examines the conflicts encountered when children grow up without nurture. Can healthy mental awareness evolve without constructive, embracing, and caring guidance? Growth without nurture breaks the sense of unity and enforces separation. Uneven distribution of informative guidance results in mental conflicts that shape identity.

     I investigate these qualities in the collision of animals, such as birds, cats, and fish, with the realm of abstract machines, animal tendencies, and mechanical repetitions. These characters have over developed qualities as a result of evolution without nurture. The lack of guidance is expressed through the struggle of interaction and leads to clumsy outcomes. These characters attempt to interact in spaces that mirror pleasant aquatic passages but have an eerie resemblance to an uncouth industrial domain. I use perspective and color in patterns to present emotional exchange between the illustrations. During application I am greatly influenced by my marks and work intuitively with the conversations discovered. The dialogue between the marks I make and the new directions they suggest continues through numerous layers. This work narrates the emotional struggle of growing up without nurture, and how this informs a crude and frightening walk towards maturity.

Lennon Michalski 2011