©ashley dawn. fall 2011.

text reads as follows (without the scientific translations): “Identity. The paint? The Pen and Pencil? The Photograph? The digital? Where do we amount as artists in the frame? Taking what we see and changing the context for another. Why do we want everyone to perceive with their eyes what we see with ours? What medium (identity) do we put ourselves under? The paint? The Pen & Pencil? The photograph? The digital? Dump everything into your creations, because it’s not an identity, but rather an entity”

This was my final project for my digital arts class. It was an artist’s book that’s only requirement was to have found text in it. The found text for mine was having all of the text printed out on tracing paper and then scanning it.

This project taught me a lot about my personal struggle as an artist right now, and that is that I’m having a hard time distinguishing what my main medium is. I have a love for painting, drawing, photography, and digital arts. This project was to highlight all 4 of those parts of my artistic identity and to show this internal struggle in my artwork to try and differentiate between the 4 mediums, while trying to make all 4 into this inclusive entity. All I want to do most of the time is to take what I see and make someone else see it in a new context through art, & lately I’ve been stuck on how it is I want to put that view into that context in the best way possible. I’m passionate in all of the mediums, and I don’t want my identity to just be stuck in one medium, I want to be a part of all the mediums and use them accordingly.