Olivia Page

In my investigation, I explore the depiction of divorce through color, geometry, form, and abstraction. My goal is to create a two or three dimensional representation of my thoughts and imagination as it pertains to divorce. I draw on my personal experience and use my emotions, perspective, and opinion to create each artwork. My work demonstrates practice and experimentation because I originally took aspects of my personal life, like certain colors I associate with the various houses I have lived in, and used them to depict the complex visual representation of divorce. The standard color palettes that I created in Image 1 emphasize the contrast between my mother’s and father’s houses. I continued this color palette in the images that followed. Regarding experimentation, in Images 5-7, I experimented with other materials and three dimensional structures. As my investigation developed, I started to explore a looser style. I included abstraction in this investigation so that I could finally explain to other people what I see and feel. The chaos, heartbreak, confusion, and competition are ironically best reflected in the simplest form of shape, line, and color.