The colours are layered separately like in a screenprint.
This choice allows imperfections and transparency to happen, and assimilate
painting with drawing, as there is a direct interaction between the medium and
the background - which is not read as void or underpaint.
The subject is a fake cake in expanding foam, used in times
of Covid to blow birthday candles without risk of possibly spreading the virus.
I used chromatic alterations and dramatic lighting to make the object more
ambiguous than it already was, turning it from innocuous to potentially
horrific.
These alterations allow me to represent what surviving abuse
looks like: things and situations that are easy and straight forward for most
people may become scary and uncomfortable, even threatening.
