June 2022
Projection with Mix-Media on Mylar
2ft x 3ft, 
 

Living in the Unknown is a hybrid digital/analog piece displaying themes of dislocations and presence through the painterly qualities. Using two of my own personal photographs of my mother from her first arrival to Canada in 1998 from her home country Guyana, I planned to create a collage that showcases the emotions one has when relocating and migrating. Exploring the use of projecting images, I focused on highlighting aspects of the collage with the use of acrylic paint with gel medium, pencils, and conte. By doing so I used mylar to project the image onto, creating a hybrid picture plan. This allowed me to physically condense the pixels of the images with the painterly strokes of my paint brush. Using this technique I was able to visually stitch the images together with the mix-media to create a surreal scene of the outdoor combing with the inside (both being completely different from what my mother has ever known as she grew up in rural Guyana), showing the within and without (mothers presences vs removal), being physically in Canada, but emotionally lost.