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.

December Concentration

Chasing Life

You Cannot Find Peace by Avoiding Life

Six Concentration Pieces

- Complete at mind

- Needles of calmness

- The goal, journey, and the deep breath before it.

- The moment before a blast.

- Solitude at paradise rock

- Standstill at dusk.

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.

Final Submission



Smothering Smog
Acrylic Base and oil on Canvas



Blue Bliss
Watercolour on White Cartridge Paper

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

Automobile and Buddha
Acrylic on Canvas

Stop
Acrylic on Canvas

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.