Kaitlyn Weimer

"The Skin Has Eyes"        8.5x11 Paper, Pastels, Paint, Hot glue "Touch allows us to find our way in the world in the darkness or in other circumstances where we can't fully use our other senses." "By combining eyesight and touch, primates excel at locating objects in space." Pg. 94 Statement: The passage talks about whenever we see a picture of texture, we are able to remember how it feels exactly; hence the skin having eyes. I decided to illustrate the skin having eyes in outer space; outer space due to a representation of space itself. The hand with the eye in the center is supposed to represent the way the blind are able to navigate the world with the use of touch; that their eyes are their hands. I used hot glue around the eye to give dimension to the illustration. "Pain" 8.5x11 Paper, Pastels "Often our fear of pain contributes to it. Our culture expects childbirth to be a deeply painful event, and so, for us, it is."   Page

 The only picture I was able to find: at least this is better than nothing

  In Process: Figuring Out the Locations Part One   In Process: Figuring Out the Locations Part Two Final Locations                            

Final Sculpture Photos Artist Statement: For my nature sculptures I wanted to focus on the outlines of naturally occurring shapes, with emphasis on both the form and the negative space of the shapes. Most of my sculptures incorporate yarn somewhere in the piece to mimic the entanglement humans experience with nature. I used white ink to represent what humanity has not been able to destroy in nature yet while the black ink is used to represent what humanity has been able to destroy. The wire that the audience members are able to see in the pieces are meant to represent nature overcoming humanities grip. Majority of the sculptures are meant to be an abstract representation of objects from nature.