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DP Visual Arts Carmel School Facades by Jessica Jay, Dual Face Mounted Laser Cut Plexi Panels, Mounted in a Cascade, 80 x 36 Inspired by Francis Bacon, branches of identities scream in terror, mimicking the burst of a facade. The frightening presence is muted by the ambiguous setting; representing society’s power over an individual. Floating faces layer atop one another, forming disfigurations to mimic the loss of one’s humanity evaporating and lingering in the air. Confusion, anger and fear spiral within the figure’s internal dialogue; representing a remorse retrospective when entering womanhood. - Jessica Jay DP Visual Arts Carmel School Untitled by Sarah Davidson, Torn Keffiyeh Scarfs, Fabric, Tassels, and Soil from Israel, Installation, 86 x 39 x 48 This artwork portrays the nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict, abandoning the prospect of integration, instead emphasizing, tension, complexity and destruction instead. The gradual release of soil is symbolic for land and its role as a source of tension in the conflict. Therefore, as the soil is released, so does the tension. The tangling of fabric juxtaposes this idea, emphasizing the complexity of the conflict rather than a simple one based on soil. The use of tangling fabric in order to portray complexity was inspired by Eva Hesse. - Sarah Davidson DP Visual Arts Carmel School The Void by Ian Lyons, Shot on large format film with a handmade lens board, Series of 3 Archival Pigment Prints, 28 x 25 The Void is inspired by Otto Piene’s fire paintings, where he was attempting to portray recovery from a world destroyed by WWII. Similarly, I was attempting to portray my recovery from the world of grief that I was living in. Each image in the series is overexposed around the edges, scarring the image with a void. The simplicity of the images are trying to evoke calmness, portraying a world peaceful after the negation expressed in the void. AR 229: Beginning Photo // Assignment: Portrait as Representation // Michelle Molokotos // Skidmore College PHOT 219: Phot Project Seminar // Project: Hong Kong Immigrants // Brendan Fielding // SCAD Hong Kong PHOT 219: Photo Project Seminar // Project: Letter to myself // Jade Richards // SCAD Hong Kong PHOT 719: Graduate Seminar // Project: Flower Boys // Sandra Dans // SCAD Hong Kong DP Visual Arts Carmel School A Living Room by Bradley Selevan, Multi Exposure Panoramic Pigment Print, 54 x 16 Inspired by Gregory Crewdson, A Living Room is a panoramic photograph that transforms a space of comfort and intimacy into a space of underlying tension. The audience is invited to read the image like a narrative, traveling along the wide aspect ratio, as they are introduced to a storyline foreshadowing the fall of man. Lighting played a role in composing the models and to emphasize the great distance between mankind. - Bradley Selevan AR 330: Developing a Personal Vision // Dollhouse Series // Lizzie Gill // Skidmore College PHOT 475: Photo Project Seminar // Project: A Fruit Orgy (Time-based Installation), Inkjet Print on Sugar Paper, Insects // Rhody Chan // SCAD Hong Kong PHOT 719: Graduate Seminar // Project: Architecture of Insurgency // Johnny Gin // SCAD Hong Kong DP Visual Arts, Carmel SchoolMemories by Steffi Zhang, Rorschach Cyanotype Contact Prints, Installation, 100 x 40 This piece is a timeline documenting the journey of my mother’s sudden need for a liver transplant. Each photograph is framed in the shape of a Rorschach test, symbolic of the idea that these events are of psychological importance, memories etched into my mind and embedded in psyche. Like the supposed purpose of an inkblot test, I am attempting to find meaning and connection in these events. - Steffi Zhang DP Visual ArtsCarmel SchoolSpineline by Emily Nagar, Photo on White Glazed Molding Clay, 4 x 10 Photos of the Holocaust: peace, hatred, starvation, execution, and survival. The spine represents life and the form of the human body. To me it is a symbol of life and death. The spine is our only body part that keeps us standing; it holds us together. - Emily Nagar PHOT 475: Photo Project Seminar // Project: Portals // Dylan DeRose // SCAD Hong Kong AR 330: Developing a Personal Vision // Senior Exhibition // Jackie Silberbush // Skidmore College PHOT 314: Controlled Lighting II //Assignment: Beauty Shot // Kittima Pariyarungsi // SCAD Hong Kong AR229: Beginning Photography // Assignment: Portrait as Representation // Molly Leon // Skidmore College

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