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The idea behind this piece is the idea that I am individual, like a handmade doll is. Who I am has been developed through my life and there’s many pieces that make me up as a whole. I have been asked who the hands are in the painting, I imagined it as simply the doll maker, however, others have suggested a higher power. Either way, I leave it up to interpretation.

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This piece demonstrates the abuse of animals, especially elephants, in the circus. Elephants were abused using bull hooks used to hurt the elephants when they disobeyed as well as chains, disabling the elephant’s ability to sit down, forcing them to stand for hours to get obedience.

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The thought behind this piece is the idea that someone coming out of their shell is normally a person’s personality becoming more apparent. So for this piece it shows a person’s ideas and thoughts, which are what I believe makes up a person’s personality, coming out of the person for everyone to see.

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I scream you scream

In thinking of a concept for this piece I had quite a bit of difficulty. In the end I drew inspiration from my own fears; stink bugs. From this I interpreted the general fear of insects. It wasn’t completely intentional to have myself as the subject but I feel it plays into the meaning quite well.

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When creating this piece I wanted to create a literal form of the idiom “cat got your tongue.” So to convey this, I quite literally painted a cat holding a human tongue in its mouth.