What is Beauty?, Emma Mazomenos, 2020
Creating on a computer was a task that challenged myself as an artist to open my mind, and find new possibilities of how art can be made without using physical drawing materials.
For this year’s theme “It’s a Plastic World,” I felt interested in exploring the term ‘plastic’ by creating an artwork that depicts the meaning of beauty in society, through an artistic lens. Beauty is classified by the nature of society, for the way a person chooses to view another based on what is naturally seen or what we choose to believe is being seen. With there being so much beauty in life, it becomes problematic, in the sense where it gives individuals of this generation the want to hide imperfections in order to be deemed fit for society’s standards. Combining the element of photography with graphic design demonstrates a connection of storytelling through layering. Reality is a distorted concept, for which the things we surround ourselves with on a daily basis are not always what they seem.