Class 105

A Sun Full of Sorrow
-Mindee Louie

My name is Melinda Louie-Felix, my traditional name is Sosahn, and I belong to the Sts’ailes Territory and the Tla’amin Nation. Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) is a human crisis movement. In the United States and Canada, over 5500 Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been murdered and statistics tell us that more than 84% of Indigenous women face violence at some point in their lives. Coast Salish traditional button blankets are used for protection among other reasons during cultural ceremonies. I wanted to combine my love for my culture and passion for the MMIWG epidemic to create something that symbolizes sorrow, resilience and remembrance. It was important for me to have the colours red, black and white because those are the colours of my tribes. The sun design I created is to signify sadness while the hands surrounding mean unity.

Materials: Traditional Indigenous button blanket using milten wool and pearl buttons.

Right of Choice
- Mandy Mehrghorbani

As an Iranian woman I know very well what a difficult and frightening experience it is to live in a place where abortion is illegal in many cases, even in the cause of rape. Because of the involvement of religion in the countries’ rules, they have taken this basic human-right from women. Because of the illegality of abortion, many gynecologists refuse to do this in their clinic or if they do, they do it for relatively high costs, a price which many women cannot afford, and the consequences are irreversible. More than 22,000 women die from unsafe abortions every year. I have decided to express my concern in this project.

I created a classical animation, and I portrayed a woman who suffer irreparable damages by the dogmatic religious beliefs, rules and lack of facilities (by symbolizing them in household objects) and with the ending I gave to the story I tried to make a strong visual impact on the audience and to help raise awareness that in many parts of the world women are losing their lives for not having this basic human-right.

Materials: classical animation

The Good, The Bad and Me
-Myline Deziel

My project, "The Good, The Bad and Me" is a 17 second video animation that demonstrates how quickly someone can spiral. It explores the feelings leading up to, during and after. It feels euphoric at first but before you know it, you can’t stop and all there is left is you, your thoughts and the guilt. There are times in everyone’s life where they might have been viewed as a bad person, likewise there are times where they were viewed as a good person. I made this to remind people that they are not their mistakes, mental illness, emotions etc. I chose to do a classical animation with video footage to best show the progression of an episode. I used the contrast between neon and muted colours to represent the pure ecstasy the person feels at the beginning versus the consequences the person feels at the end.

Materials: video footage, digital animation

Faerotica
- Bella Arabsky

I created a lesbian couple portrayed through the male and female gaze. Laura Mulvey's theory, the male gaze, is the act of regularly eroticizing women in the media. Rather than existing for her own sake, a female character's purpose is for male viewing pleasure. I depicted the women performing a sexual act composed in a way that feels like we're lurking. The beams of moonlight represent a spotlight, symbolizing the male gaze. The female gaze looks at the world through a woman's perspective. It's the ways in which women look at other females, males, and things in the world. It values emotion, intimacy, and passion. I portrayed the women sharing a pure, affectionate moment in a warm, comfortable forest. They aren't sexualized, yet their love is radiating. I wanted the paintings to be meaningful, political, and personal. As a feminist woman-loving-woman in a patriarchy, this subject is important to me.

https://www.asu.edu/courses/fms504/total-readings/mulvey-visualpleasure.pdf

After The Storm
- Jax Mendonca

I started out doing Exquisite Corpse drawings (A Surrealist drawing game in which multiple participants draw a single figures components without knowing what the other is drawing.) I then took these drawings into Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to fully realize these creatures. These characters are set in a fictional universe where, due to the societal effects of Covid-19 people begin turning into malformed creatures. I want to use this project to represent the conclusion of my experience of the Covid-19 world as we begin to come out of this long battle with the help of the vaccine. I believe art is special in a way that we can convey our thoughts, feelings and what we have experienced all through the help of visual representation. My monsters represent these topics: isolation, mental health, domestic abuse and sexual deprivation. For my final character, I wanted her to represent the healing and growth process as we begin to return to the normal world.

Materials: Illustrator / Photoshop

Yin's Horns
- Coco Liu

This is a 3 minutes of animatic, the character is 2d, the background is a realistic model. I like Writing story and enjoy create characters so the reason why I chose to do this project is I want try to let reality and virtual characters combine well

and tell an interesting and engaging story. The protagonists in the story think they are alien so desperately trying to hide their secrets, but in fact others may not be root to find them strange. The theme of my story wants to express "just be yourself", and I choose to present it in the form of a comedy..

Materials: video

Stairway To Heaven
- Mikhail Yourchenko

I've always had struggles with motivation and sometimes it can be difficult to figure out why. Finding out what attracts our inner self to act takes years. I decided to take a step to visualize this separation between success and failure, with a staircase. The staircase is a representation of motivation, while white pawns represent success, and black ones failure. The three compositions provide three different perspectives which highlight different levels of self awareness. The composition Observer was captured with a 55mm lens, to simulate that of the human eye, Failure, and Winner both use 34, and 28 mm lenses to represent hindsight, the ability to see the full picture.

Materials: Maya Render

Dream Home
- Tina Cao

This project is a pop-up book. I enjoy living in a small place. I always think about what kind of house I will live in. There must be a big window in the bedroom so that I can see the sky. My bed and curtain are going to be pink. I also want a study room where I can put flowers, cups and books. I can spend the whole afternoon there reading. For my bathroom, it's going to be very clean. There will be a bathtub and a cute mirror. I can listen to music while taking a bath in the winter. The furniture in the kitchen is going to be orange. That's how I design my pop-up book.

Materials: paper

Bliss Point
- Julie Zhou

This project consists of 3 miniature dish sculptures that blend Eastern and Western cuisine. The purpose is to demonstrate my personal cultural interpretations relating to my experience as an international student in Canada. I would also like to explore the opinions of those with different cultural backgrounds by raising questions like how people view foreign cultures, and if our cultural interpretations are tied to our personal values? By thinking about these questions, it could help us be more understandable to each other when it comes to interpreting other cultures. The first dish is soy milk tomato soup with fish fillets, the second is red beets fish ball udon (Japanese noodles) soup, and the last one is jalapeno pepper stir fry shrimp.

Materials: polymer clay