This specific work has a very dark, gothic-like quality. It is the scene of a patient at a dentist’s office and is a 9”x 12” piece done in ink pen. At the base of the page one can see the form of a face with a dentist standing before it, gripping a tool of some sort. There is a light in the top left corner. The dentist is wearing protective goggles that reflect a light and hide his eyes, which gives him anonymity conducive to his symbolic character. The focal point of this piece is the face because it is the largest mass of negative space and is located in the most foreground level. The area surrounding the scene fades into a dark vignette. The texture is roughened with cross hatching and the value is overall very dark leaving key highlights in the light, face, and shirt of the dentist.
This piece displays a darker, more gothic quality unusual to my preferred style. However, it was very intentional. The work depicts the scene of a patient at a dentist office, which usually brings very negative feelings to the mind as it infers thoughts of discomfort, drilling, picking, odd chemical smells, cold temperatures, and bitter tastes of latex gloves and Listerine. I had to go see my dentist a few weeks ago and while I was laying in the chair, being prodded and pried, I got some inspiration. The dentist in this piece represents anything in one’s life that they feel causes an invasive discomfort. Most people have either known someone or gone through an experience that made them feel as if there mouth, representative of themselves as a whole, was being pried open with large hands and metal tools forcefully making their way down it. However, the discomfort that comes with vulnerability can often time result in positive benefits. As terrible as one may feel while being examined and operated on at the appointment, the effect is most often a fresh, clean feeling. We all have cavities, or imperfections in our lives, the dentist’s light is what illuminates them and allows the “dentist” to fix them. The light symbolizes whatever element brings that flaw to exposure but also advocates whatever element is fixing it. Sometimes we can be our own dentists and other times it can be an outside friend or circumstance, nonetheless, we all know cavities don’t fix themselves, but rather get worse when ignored.
This piece displays a darker, more gothic quality unusual to my preferred style. However, it was very intentional. The work depicts the scene of a patient at a dentist office, which usually brings very negative feelings to the mind as it infers thoughts of discomfort, drilling, picking, odd chemical smells, cold temperatures, and bitter tastes of latex gloves and Listerine. I had to go see my dentist a few weeks ago and while I was laying in the chair, being prodded and pried, I got some inspiration. The dentist in this piece represents anything in one’s life that they feel causes an invasive discomfort. Most people have either known someone or gone through an experience that made them feel as if there mouth, representative of themselves as a whole, was being pried open with large hands and metal tools forcefully making their way down it. However, the discomfort that comes with vulnerability can often time result in positive benefits. As terrible as one may feel while being examined and operated on at the appointment, the effect is most often a fresh, clean feeling. We all have cavities, or imperfections in our lives, the dentist’s light is what illuminates them and allows the “dentist” to fix them. The light symbolizes whatever element brings that flaw to exposure but also advocates whatever element is fixing it. Sometimes we can be our own dentists and other times it can be an outside friend or circumstance, nonetheless, we all know cavities don’t fix themselves, but rather get worse when ignored.
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