Diptych Artist Statement Version #1

My big idea is emotions. For my brainstorming assignment I found and took pictures ranging from happy to sad to confusing to angry. I then broke down my brainstorming assignment to more meaningful emotions. I started to explore a theme dealing with people’s emotions about war and the nation as a whole. One side of my modulating meaning is the heartache and the pain and the death associated with a solider in the war. The other side of my modulating meaning was the side where people forget about the tragedies and cover it up with a smiling face and a nice vacation on the beach.