Final Post - 8 concentrations

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.

Final Concentration Pieces

Shot
Pen on Cartridge Paper

Couldn't Save a Fish
Acrylic Base and Oil on Canvas

And it Rained
Acrylic on Canvas

Automobile and Buddha
Acrylic and Pen on Canvas

Stop
Acrylic and Pen on Canvas



Smothering Smog
Acrylic Base and oil on Canvas



Blue Bliss
Watercolour on White Cartridge Paper



The God in Me Greets the God in You
Acrylic and Charcoal on White Cartridge Paper

•          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.

December Concentration & Resubmission

My Concentration focuses on pattern. This includes the same objects repeating and mixed up. I started with pieces that are more realistic- objects that are easily recognizable. As I continued, I started to make the objects more abstract and harder to identify, so people have to discover the object within the pattern. The fact that just by repeating something creates a new image interested me.

Final December Concentration

Final 8 Concentrations

My concentration is focused on disguise, including anything that hides faces such as masks. The works exist somewhere between realism and abstraction. Though parts of the images are realistic, colorful patterns are sometimes added in order to make them more surreal. This shows how people try to hide themselves and further accentuates never showing the real side of themselves.

Concentration Semester

Untitled
Just Getting A Break From The Hectic Life.

Religion As It Was.

The Late Nights
Its Getting Smokey Here !
What Happened To Prostitution ?
It Goes Till 5 Am In The Morning
Busy Rides


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.

Final Resubmission

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.