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Artist Jessica Hopkins
Takoma Park, Maryland USA
Beauty Behind the Beast
Mixed Media
Artist Statement
As a consequence of my illness (Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma B Cell Cancer), I became the subject and my approach to painting changed as well. I began to notice a different language starting to develop, which was abstraction in my art and reality. With this style of art I began to use color to represent a mask and use different patterns to represent how the exterior of my body felt after radiation. In this new discovery I begin to incorporate other tools to depict the figure, instead of only using a brush. My new utensils consist of pens, palate knifes, along with scrapping and roller tools. Each portrait examines my interpretation of the different stages of my transformation. Through my observation I have discovered my direction in my current work is an introspective examination of myself.
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