The AP Studio Art students have been working incredibly hard this semester. They have created 8 artworks on a single theme.
Aditee
I love to go to places, so this obviously involves a lot of traveling. There are many peculiar and interesting things that you see on the road. My aim is to capture such things whenever I can. I want to show what I see on the roads and streets rather than showing them as places with traffic and pollution. Even though my main aim is to point out a different perspective, there are a few pictures which transport me to another place and have nothing to do with the real world, such as "Yellow Dragons." This photograph reminds me of something majestic and dominating. These taxis rule the roads of Calcutta like a ferocious dragon. All my other pieces have an underlying meaning as well.
"Skeletons" is about how the planet Earth is suffering because of human action. In the picture "Life Waits For No One," a woman on a scooter warns the men that women are no longer objects of desire but people who deserves equal respect like men. By taking pictures I want to point out such issues of "Life On the Streets," the title of my concentration.
Akriti
Mental issues have always interested me mainly because of their dealings with the human mind; something that has always mystified as well as intrigued me. The problems that people face and the ordeals they have to overcome usually add to their mental well-being and I would like to depict all of these struggles in my concentration. Mental issues and psychological dilemmas are something that can be interpreted by an individual's perspective and I would like to depict my version and ideas on these phenomena. My interest mainly lies in psychology as well as other matters of the mind. Hence, making this my concentration is ideal for a person like me.
Christine
My concentration is focused on personal memories from various times in my life. Moments are fleeting, and our memories are often the only reminder we have to keep. Although my concentration is called “Black & White Memories”, I always have one element in each piece that has color. The color serves to highlight parts of my subjective memory that stands out. I combine both drawings and photographs in my concentration. This combination helps me to portray memory in all its variations.
Gojen
I chose music as my central theme because I love how music unites everyone and brings people together as a single being. I personally like music because it makes me happy and relaxes me from my stress and work. One thing about music which absolutely amazes me, is its power to persuade, convince and change people’s thoughts and ideas. I plan to connect the worldly boredom which all of us feel with music and create a fusion for my art works. For me, music has no limitations or boundaries, and I wish to portray this freedom in my pieces.
Hyeeun
My concentration is focused on disguise. This includes anything that hides faces such as masks. My concentration pieces change from being realistic to abstract. Colorful patterns are added in order to make these images more abstract. This shows how people try to hide themselves which further accentuates in never showing the real side of them.
Luniva
My concentration focuses on the diverse potential outcomes of Buddhism. With my pieces I explore the various ways in which this religion would shape itself in the obscure future. Would Buddhists adapt to the drastic situations of the world or would they be driven to the edges to survive even in the most severe settings? When modern technology intensifies to an entirely new level and when culture and religion no longer rule the lives of the people what would the world look like? The aim of my concentration would be to focus on how my religion, Buddhism, would transform or adapt in the technologically dominated future.
Nayung
My concentration is based on the culture of Nagaland, a small state in India which is my home. The culture and diversity between different tribes intrigues me and I want to show it through my pieces. The medium used for my art are mostly watercolor, acrylic, charcoal and ink. There aren't many people who know about Nagaland, and if they do it is a very stereotyped view that is portrayed in the rest of India, such as images of headhunting and eating everything that moves. I want to show the unique aspects of the culture, such as the strength of both masculine and feminine roles, the spiritual life of rituals and the decorative forms that are part of this rich culture. All of these aspects help form my identity as I venture out in the larger world.
Rahul
The topic for my concentration is surreal juxtaposition. All my paintings have topics and metaphors of their own but are united by the fact that they share a human character interacting in a surreal setting. The latter half of my works are all done in the Japanese “super flat” style and are all illustrations of sentences scribbled onto the artwork itself. I use personal symbols and imagined characters throughout the work, at times repeating these symbols to create my own iconography.
Rignor
Having spent the last ten years in this school, I would say that I know a great deal about Woodstock. It is a school that is orientated around academics, but its true identity lies in the departments of music and art. Being a Woodstocker, my passion lies in these two fields also, and so this concentration has given me the opportunity to merge them into one large spectrum that aims to define the significance of the word Woodstock. It is my school, and the spirit of the students. But it is also music, and the festival. My pieces aim to contrast and blend the two spaces in time that are poles apart but somehow parallel in their sense of community.
Sanjana
No statement.
Aditya
Calmness is a word that has one definition when looked at by the general population, yet has several meanings when looked at by an individual. Calmness has several definitions when looked at from different perspectives and I choose this topic to explore how one can find calmness out of anything, even the most mundane or desolate thing by trying to switch perspectives. An example would be seeing a nuclear fallout as silence enveloping the world as human technology stops eating up nature. I hope to show the calmer outlook in my artwork, even though at first glance they may not seem so.
The few pieces which won't appear calm at first glance comes from my exposure to video games. I have been playing various genres of video games with different art styles and themes, which all had one thing in common: calmness. It seemed like a far-fetched idea to find calmness in video games, but I found that by trying to find calmness in any situations even from someone else's perspective, one will always find it (calmness).
The pieces I make will mostly take on an unconventional perspective. Like Hitler getting calmness out of the holocaust while the World cringes. However, there will be a few traditional calm pieces like a nice scenery. I chose this topic out of a need to challenge my creativity, and to find the simple calmness embedded within almost anything.
Siddharth
I chose my concentration theme as the modern city life as we all have experienced it, and how all the busy people, city lights, late nights and the pollution and the rush kind of amazes me. As i love lights, the complication of traffic and all the things that are consequential in the cities, I will work on artworks compiling them. I also want to show the bad part of it, how people have forgotten about other many important things such as religion, environment and their ethics. So I basically want to show how this modern world is and also how it has its positive and negative aspects.
Su Wan
My concentration focuses on the pattern. This includes same objects repeating and mixed up. I started with pieces that's more realistic; objects that people can easily tell what it is. But starting in the middle I started to make more abstract such as one object's parts mixed up, so people have to find out what is the object.
Tanya
a·nach·ro·nism : The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order. For my concentration theme, I chose anachronism, which simply defined, means something that is out of the time. For me, art should be timeless, therefore by juxtaposing objects and situations from another time to a contrasting one, I think I can achieve a body of work that is humourous, bold and innovative. I plan to experiment with colors, art styles and art subjects with a central theme that combines the past and the present, the old and the new.
Tina
The central idea of my concentration focuses on emotions and feelings in faces depicted through black and white photography. I feel that faces are artistic in themselves as they come in all shapes and sizes, uniquely portraying their own emotions and feelings. I chose black and white as a medium because the simplicity, grace and refinement of it aids in accentuating the true meaning and sentiment that I wish to render in my pictures. By using sepia and cyan tints in my photo editing, I hope to create a nostalgic mood in the work. I am exploring the many subtleties of what a “face” is considered in both human and non-human faces.
Yosep
The unique properties of glass can express rather different perspectives. Glass is at one angle transparent allowing human eyes to see through it, but at another angle it can reflect the light or shape of any other objects. Sometimes it is even capable of distorting images, for example a person's face looking into the glass observed from the opposite side. These properties of transparency, reflection and distortions not only could be used to create visually unique and interesting paintings, but also can be mixed with different ideas and objects in order to show different angles or hidden perspectives of the subjects and thus recreate them.
Zarka
The concentration of my body of work is a single Urdu word- “Mashallah.” In Urdu, when people see something especially beautiful that they hope to protect they say the word “Mashallah” as a prayer to guard it from the evil eye. My portfolio is almost entirely based on the aesthetic and meaning of a single word.Throughout, I have used two different kinds of Urdu calligraphy to capture the different meanings the same word may carry. While some of the work seems rigid and intangible, with no real meaning, other pieces capture the abstract emotions that are associated with the word.Often, the viewer will be able to connect the images with more than one theme or no theme at all.I have tried to work in the same mediums of ink and water color to maintain consistency.I would like to add that my body of work is still building, so the larger theme might not be easily identifiable as yet.
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