Aalto University
School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Master’s programme in Contemporary Design
Exhibited @Helsinki Design Week 2024
I explored the relationship between the artist and their art when creating out of a very cliché topic in art, heartbreak. The paintings above chronologically from left to right:
1. Second First Love (2023)
As a teen, I thought I'd never feel a love like my first one. I was wrong. This intense relationship had ended and I had to capture it in a jar. As this wasn't my first heartbreak and most likely not my last, I knew I would soon turn sour. I would resent him soon. I wasn't ready. I found an old painting that described the love we had had. Trying to get the faces right while painting numbed my brain for the moment. It felt freeing. At that moment I knew to continue for as long as I needed.
2. Anxiety Girl (2023)
I was right. I could no longer see the beauty of love. All I felt was pain.
3. Doors (2023)
The doors were supposed to be a manifestation of a happy future. I thought it was perfect to paint a peaceful future yet nothing came to me. I could not paint. The third and final painting of my heartbreak series told the story of my interactions with my paintings, the process, the diary I kept, the tears I cried (both happy and sad), and the journey.
I used references for each painting based on what old art piece spoke to my mental state.
references from left to right:
1. William Adolphe Bouguereau, L’Amour et Psyché, enfants 1890
2. Eugène Delaplanche, Eva efter syndefaldet 1868
3. Rudolph Tegner, Eve after the fall 1903, Jean-Baptiste CarpeauxWounded Cupid 1875 & William Adolphe Bouguereau, Rêve de printemps (en. Dream of Spring) 1901
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