Inter: The Space Between
Julia Stephens
Major: Studio Art & Creative Writing
Genre/Medium: acrylic paint
About the Work:
The prefix Inter means between or among. What is separating, but also what is connecting. This piece means interception and also means interconnection. I wanted to portray this trust and juxtaposition of separation and connection between the earth and psyche. I was intrigued by the idea of sun interference and how the sun does not allow communication to pass through from us to psyche. I think this concept is a beautiful suggestion of trust in the spacecraft and how psyche has its own autonomy and its own mission to complete. Additionally I felt like it paralleled the myth of eros and psyche with this theme of trust and the idea of light being a catalyst for both a discovery of beauty and catastrophe.
Using acrylic paint I wanted to display the earth, sun, and psyche in an eclipse-like formation. Although the sun makes it so that we cannot see psyche and psyche cannot see us, both these bodies shine independently nonetheless. I wanted to show the light that is stretching around all three of these objects both as a highlight to their separation and also a form of connecting them through the utilization of the same bright cadmium color palette and flowing strokes.
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