Artist Statement

            When I was first told of our final assignment to incorporate the golden ratio, a microcosm, and a macrocosm, in gray scale, my mind reeled the many possibilities. My mind raced through the sun kissed African savannah, dove into a rich Hawaiian coral reef, pranced through a peaceful garden, and then I finally rested upon a more urban approach. I was researching images that represented the golden ratio when I came upon a picture of a fist. My mind instantly saw a picture of a man getting punched in a dark alley of a city. So I began to sketch. My first approach was to go for a more comic book feel. I wanted a cop car involved with crime scene tape with the lights reflecting off the water on the street and brick walls, and I wanted to show the fight as well as the forensic investigation of fingerprints and blood spatter. All of these ideas hit me at once and I was so overwhelmed. So as I started to paint my grey scale images, all of these ideas just didn’t fit successfully into the final version. So I simplified my ideas to just the man being punched in an alley. Now, the golden ratio is represented in the fist, the microcosm is represented in an up-close look at a human face, and the alley way represents the macrocosm. I feel like my final project is very successful. I feel like I used the grey scale to accurately create a light source as well as depth, dimension, and texture. I am very proud of my final project as it coveys a mysterious execution of the criteria.