Artist: Candace

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My concentration explores the depth of peoples’ most prominent characteristics or qualities as well as the permanence of a first impression. My concentration uses unexpected imagery, irony, and allusions to symbolically represent perceptions of impressions. These perceptions are of ourselves and/or how those around us view us as a whole.

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"Bookworm"- This title just further explains my piece because my concentration is about how people see you and how first impressions stay with those you meet. This piece is a girl with a book in her hands and covering her face with book pages as hair, so “bookworm” reflects how people will see you as just a bookworm if that is how you are presented from the beginning of a relationship.

"Sweeter than Honey"- In this concentration piece there is a girl with honey as hair and bees and honeycombs to reiterate the pun of someone being “sweet” or kind. It relates to my concentration because when someone meets you and their first impression of you is how nice you are, it stays with them, how kind you are to them or how they witness how genuine you are is what they remember.
 

"Why So Crabby"- With crabs in the sand as hair on the guy the impression made by this piece is that he was/is angry or “crabby”. Moreover, I filled in his shirt with colors of the ocean just to repeat the idea of the ocean and crabs.
 

"Wall Flower"- This piece is representational of someone who seems to blend into the background, therefore they are a wallflower. In the piece, the man has hair that is flowers that matches the flowers on the brick wall behind him. It’s all about how you act when you first meet and how you are remembered to everyone else.