ABOUT HAZEL
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The 24 year old actively pursues some means of a design-washed corporate job to not only generate the source of inspiration for creating the infamously insane and mundane To Do Lists but to also feel some semblance to the fine art and design community.
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My earlier work functions as a symbol for the very dense pressures, feelings, emotions, and thoughts organized into abstract shapes, lines, faces, and angels casting sorrowful looks or in prayer. Motifs behind the work consider the home and how it is one’s largest masterpiece - your space is valued, as its development and collections shift. I find ways to portray emotive behaviors in being ‘fried’ and hoarding. Working through heavy and impending tasks by layering expressive and sporadic linework, and mark making on acetate.
The repetition of icons makes the work more personal because they act as relics of security for the person getting through difficult times. By emphasising aesthetics, I want to amplify the astonishment of the spectator by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil poetic images that leave traces and balances on the edge of recognition and alienation. Through investigating language on a meta-level, I’ve created several practically identical works, upon which thoughts that have only just developed are manifested: notes are made and then crossed out again, and ‘mistakes’ are repeated.
Familiar textures and colours are based on consumer products. Marlboro black 100’s, Cheezits, and film rolls become metabolized and painted over. The medium often changes, but more digested ideas manifest as varied edition prints or imagery that mimics a photo or print process as seen in ‘Dualtone Series’. This diptych refers to duality in being over and underwhelmed. Referenced by the first image being stagnant, and then the second explodes with colourful floating fragments with varying opacities that seldom touch or overlap.
