Closer

Materials: paper, colored pencil
Processes: Everything in the final piece is transferred from drawings in my sketchbook.
Ideas: This piece explores the emotions of lust and self-hatred explored in the song “Closer”. A very overt reference to Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” is made to symbolize the protagonist’s worship of sex (as a representation of lust this is why her face is obscured). The protagonist sits torn open on a mound of dirt, representing his passionate shameful longing, as the petals of a black flower float into the distance and turn into insects. Love is often poetically compared to a blooming flower but this is love is corrupt, and thus it reintroduces the recurring theme through my pieces of insects. (The black flower is subconsciously inspired by the iconic line from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”: “Let the black flower blossom as it may!”)



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