BURRIED ALIVE

BURRIED ALIVE

This piece relates to the 2010 Ontario Curriculum Grade 10 Visual Arts document in the following specific expectations:
A3.1  Students will explore and experiment with a variety of materials/media, including alternative media, and traditional and/or emerging technologies, tool, and techniques, and apply them to create art works (eg. Use recycled, found, and/or handmade objects to make a mosaic or assemblage.....) pg. 128
A2.1  Students will use various elements and principles of design to create art works that express personal feelings and/or communicate emotions to an audience (eg. create a mixed media self-portrait....) pg. 127
B2.3 Students will identify and describe ways in which creating and/or anaylsing art works has affected their personal identity and values (eg. with reference to their self-concept......their ability to express their emotions) pg. 130
C3.3 Students will demonstrate an understanding of how the production and presentation of art works can affect the environment, and apply environmentally responsible practices when creating and presenting art works (eg. use recycled materials where possible...) pg. 132

This piece uses scrap materials as a drawing surface.  I collaged cardboard from cereal boxes and added newspaper to create an unconventional drawing surface for my self portrait.  I was trying to convey an environmental message and demonstrate a mood in my portrait.  I wanted to create a self portrait that shows my concern with environmental issues and the ruined (ripped paper) state of our world.  There is a focus in the new curriculum with environmental awareness and using found object and recycled material in artwork.  This piece adds a deeper meaning to a traditional self portrait.