Desdemona Painting

My artwork features an exploration of people in public places. I grew interested in the relationship between people and their surroundings when I began to ride the metro and public bus periodically to attend a fellowship on Shakespearean plays in Washington D.C. While traveling, I found the differences between myself and the other riders to be intriguing in comparison to the security and similarity of the settings at the school I left to get there. A desire to paint others who felt unique, either because of their isolation from their surroundings, their introspective expressions, or amusing actions, immediately developed. While depicting the diversity I found in “regular” people, I focused on the relationship of my figures with their surroundings, including the voice of their body language and clothing. Influenced by the seminars I attended at the Folger Shakespeare Library, I began to relate the people in public places who I painted to characters from the Shakespearean plays I was studying. Their comparable facial expressions or social situations evoke similar emotions from readers and viewers. I came to realize that all of us have the opportunity to make life as dramatic as the characters in Shakespeare’s plays, only if we took the risk, venturing out to get acquainted with people from different social backgrounds than our own.

Painting:Acrylic on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:18 W x 13.5 H x 0.1 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.