The Same and Yet Opposite
Nina C.
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In this piece, at the time I was making it, I felt my life going in different directions. I have complicated feelings about how I felt about other people and how I choose to interact with them. I did not know how to feel a whole person while thinking two contrasting ideas. While making this artwork, at first I made a bird eating simple yet interweaving vines. Yet as I continued to make it, the piece did not feel whole. Instead I flipped my artwork and decided to make a bird noticeable but in empty space. If you look closely you can see a very large hummingbird outlined by twisting vines, and if you look at the opposing side then you can see another hummingbird opposite to the other. I think this meant to me that things that are the center or important to you may not be noticeable at first glace, and that you have to look hard to find and get to know a person. I think by having the two hummingbirds identical yet on different sides meant a lot to me, and showed me that you don’t have to feel only one way about something or only have one experience. People are messy, life is complicated and you can think and have multiple sides of you or a decision. This piece helped me think about who I was and accept every aspect of who I was and not just one aspect of who I am.
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It allows me to think more deeply about challenging concepts and think about how I can express my feelings into my work. Art and choosing how I represent myself in my art helps me move past complicated feelings I have and grow to learn things about myself though the creation of pieces.
