Art Portfolio
Free Spirit!
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Free Spirit! 25th Jan 2023 Acrylic on Board 100 cm x 70 cm A self portrait expressing who the artist is as a person. As a deaf artist, Prisha wanted to express how despite the challenges she has faced, she has gone through it with determination and hard work. She states that "No matter what I go through, I always go through it with free spirits and positivity as my mantra has always been 'I can do this, and no matter what, I am strong and I can do anything a person can do!'". She wanted to divert from doing realism and try do blotches of colors to create a lively and happy experience. A challenge she faced doing this project would be to learn how to create a connection between the color tones and show the characteristic of her as a person. However, she felt that this process allowed her to understand the importance of free experience and quick artworks in achieving the learning experience of being creative and experimental. |
Vision-O-Voice
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| Vision-O-Voice 23rd Jan 2023 Acrylic on Canvas 30 cm x 40 cm "Vision-O-Voice" is about the message Prisha wanted to express clearly that “I’m Deaf but not Mute”. Her initial intentions was to express this message powerfully so that she can express her inner power and strength to be able to speak out and help the viewers understand that deaf people can do anything they want. However, as she went along the process of creating this work, she started to recognize what the artwork actually means. It was about how she looks at the light and positivity of her life and not focus on the shadows and her struggles as a deaf person. The hands symbolize her looking forward and have the power to look at the positivity and let go of the obstacles. To support this, she decided to use a quote by her role model Helen Keller which stated that “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow”. She has learned a lot from the process specifically about how to be creative and curious and play around with techniques and overlaying images to express a theme impactfully. |
Shine A Light Into My Ear...
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Shine A Light Into My Ear... 18th Jan 2023 Mixed Media Sculpture 30 cm x 30 cm x 30 cm The artist intended to create a sculpture of an ear anatomy. From her daily routine, she noticed how nature plays a role in who we are as we are animals. In this case, deafness is biological, nature chose that she would be deaf. Hence, she decided to dig deeper into my fascination of nature. She had seen how the fragile and delicate dead leaves were falling. The leaves could be used to portray the hair follicles as deafness correlates with dead hair cells in the cochlea of the ear. She uses wire to create hair follicles that are alive leading to her ability to hear with the help of hearing aids which are expressed in colorful leaves while the physiotherapy sheets are formed into dead leaves. She uses light to add more visual texture into her work, creating more hair cell textures in the cochlea. It helped bring the project alive. This sculpture had taken her on a journey of experimenting and failed attempts. It has allowed her to understand the implications of her decisions and actions. She has enjoyed the learning process of this as it guided her from using recycled or bad objects that she found around her into creating a piece of art. She learned how to think creatively and be curious about the structure and form of the objects. She could have just made a sculpture out of wood or clay but she wanted to come out of my comfort zone and experiment with objects that she have never used before. |
Selflessness
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Selflessness 11 January 2023 White Pastel and Paint on Card 33 cm x 25 cm Selflessness is based on the artist's fascinations of unseen scars. In other words, in her experience as a deaf person, she has unseen scars that people do not know about that has shaped who she is today. So she thought that she could explore how other people's unseen scars affect them even today and and try to raise awareness about empathy and acceptance within the society. A friend of hers suffered from depression and anxiety. She is also very selfless and always doing things for other people. Hence the artist decided to challenge herself to show that characteristic of selflessness in her friend's portrait. She was inspired by nature and how it has defined ourselves as there are features created by nature. She looked up what are some nature elements that represent depression or isolation or selflessness. There was a picture of hands holding a rose delicately in black and white and incorporated it with her friend's portrait. This has given her the idea of how it has compositionally worked well along with how it reveals her friend's inner scars/ character. |
When I close my eyes, I am not afraid...
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| When I Close My Eyes, I Am Not Afraid... 10th Jan 2023 Acrylic and Soft Pastel on Canvas 40 cm x 50 cm This artwork was inspired by one of Prisha's old songs she wrote from when she was younger. She felt nostalgic when she sang the song and she wanted to express that feeling in her work. It was a challenging project but it allowed her to be creative with the ideas that come up when she sang the song. It was a first experience in trying to create an artwork purely from a song lyric but it gave her a new perspective in how to create art by being curious about her surroundings. |
Old Woman Praying
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| Old Woman Praying... 11th Dec 2022 Pencil on Paper 21 cm x 30 cm One of Prisha's favourite style of work is hyperrealism. It was a time consuming project but it allowed her to practice the importance of patience and consistency in creating art. She worked on this for approximately a week. |
Unbreakable Bond
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Unbreakable Bond Oct-Nov 2022 Charcoal and Pastel on Cardboard 18.5 cm x 20.5 cm Motherhood is a very important topic that Prisha expresses as it is very connected to her life. Her mother and she have a close bond as they have been through a lot together during her deafness journey. She wanted to show the connection that they have and the support and determination her mom has since she was born. She wanted to experiment with a different type of surface paper and found this brown color cardboard piece from a cereal box. The color gives a warm tone and would convey the closeness between them. She never used this type of surface as when she applied pastel on the surface, it does not apply very smoothly. It was challenging and it had left marks or have distorted the proportions of the image. This has given her an idea of what are some disadvantages of materials, not only ready made art materials but also recycled ones, in creating art. This allowed her to gain an idea of ways to express art outside of using materials from the art world. True Colors and Keep Flying
 20th October 2022 Charcoal on Paper 49 cm x 35 cm Through My Ears... |
Through My Ears...
27th October 2022
Marker on Paper
40 cm x 40 cm
The artist created sound waves of different levels. The lightest big ones are background sounds which are eventually suppressed in her hearing aids, hence the usage of a lighter value. However, the sound waves get darker and darker and smaller and smaller which represents the sounds of the people talking with her along with the sounds that come from her mic. The words that shes uses are all having some type of missing letter or spelling, which represents her missing out words in speech. This experience allowed her to think differently in showing how I can express her disability. Although Prisha does not choose this type of media, she still considers it a good experiment. In other words, it has allowed her to view other skills and techniques besides painting or video to literally express her perspective as a deaf person.
Dancing My Inner Joy...
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| Dancing My Inner Joy 17th October 2022 Soft Pastel on Paper 49 cm x 35 cm One common thing that Prisha has noticed that motivates her as a Bollywood dancer is how she is fascinated by the art of Indian dance movements. Indian dance is the expression of inner beauty and the divinity within man. The gestures, facial expressions, and emotions seek to communicate the ideas. She felt connected to the meaning of the dance as it helps her to express her inner joy through her facial expressions and gestures. Therefore, as an artist, Prisha wanted to explore the way movements evoke certain emotions within the viewers. |
Infinitive Battle
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| Infinitive Battle 25th September 2022 Charcoal on Paper 30 cm x 21 cm each As Prisha finished her graduation of High School, she had to move out to go to college. This lead to her feeling overwhelmed and having a mental overload. She misses her family and was having anxiety about living independently for the first time. With this happening, she wanted to express her feelings into an artwork. She captures the expressivity of overwhelm and mental overload in the face which eventually spreads awareness about mental control and strength in the second part. She expresses this using the element of movement in art and value tones. |
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