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Meraki
No full textMy work explores the relationship between wanting to be remembered and my innate love for art. Personally, this feeling is conveyed through the word, Meraki. It is a Greek word used to describe doing something with creativity, soul, or love. Inspired by this word, the piece explicitly shows my creativity, but implicitly represents me through an inanimate object that is a product of my efforts. Since the idea of being remembered can take on different forms for different people, my understanding of this is to have my efforts, work, and creations stand alone and be able to express who I am. Due to this, the best parts of myself that I want to persist inspire, and strengthen my love for art.
For a majority of the piece, acrylic paints were used. The acrylics were used to create the background comprised of the complementary colours, yellow and purple. This aims to illustrate an ethereal surrounding of leaves and other plant-like objects. Together, I wanted these elements to reflect a sort of dissonant harmony between the individual shapes outlined by each colour and the overall fusion of each leaf, and plant. Overall, these elements aimed to create an atmosphere of joy highlighting the joy art brings to my life!
Additionally, as I was in my embroidery appreciation phase, I decided to include that too. \u27Meraki\u27, the square border, and the main subject were embroidered with blue and green embroidery floss of different values. Through the distinctly coloured embroidery floss and line art of the Black woman in the foreground, I aimed to create an embodiment of the pursuit of leaving a mark in this world, and the hope of being memorable, striking, and genuine
Madlib
No full textEach drawing encapsulates where my head was at during a certain point in time. I have no formal art training, so I typically just draw what I feel, what I am enjoying at a particular time, what consumes my thoughts, or something I would just like to reimagine through my own interpretation. I hope looking at these inspires some positive reactions
Roxanne
No full textMy artwork contemplates the day-to-day lived realities of marginalized identities. Although I use both acrylics on canvas and graphite on paper within my work, I use these different mediums to express the same underlying messages. I aim for viewers to interact with my work and see parts of themselves within the subjects of the drawings and paintings, regardless of the differences between their personal identities and the subjects portrayed. As a black-identifying person of colour, it is extremely important for me to see people of colour represented in the visual arts. Moreover, through my artwork, I strive not only to have representation that is visual, but emotive as well. My work is largely a reaction to the micro-aggressions that minorities face. The build-up of negative emotion-inducing experiences is often repressed by individuals and largely undermined in a broad societal context. The harshness of lines and boldness of colour within my work is a call against this silence while the softer elements and indistinct transitions between tones shed light on the complex and often difficult to work through emotional experiences of minority groups. Through the contrast in colour and shape within my artworks, I mirror the multi-faceted nature of the everyday experiences of minority groups. As well, combining various textures and varieties of realism within pieces draws attention to the varying levels of one’s true emotion and experience shared with the world and community around them. These artworks invite viewers to reflect upon the extent to which they allow themselves to be vulnerable and honour the validities of their struggles in a world of systemic suppression
Detail, Signature from Right Lancet of The Fishermen or Dr. Charles Austin and Harry Smith Window
No full textSignature: Yvonne Williams and Ellen Simon ‘9. Location: South aisle, 2nd window from entry. Lead Investigator and Photgraph: C. Cody Barteet ([email protected]).https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/y_williams_stainedglass_on_toronto_stolaves/1073/thumbnail.jp
Elbow Flexion Extension Close Up 6
No full textElbow Flexion Extension_Closeup6https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/healthed_anatomy/1106/thumbnail.jp
Shoulder Circumduction Close Up 6
No full textShoulder Circumduction Close-uphttps://ir.lib.uwo.ca/healthed_anatomy/1111/thumbnail.jp
Decolonizing the Academy: Module 1
Get PDFIn this video, learners will be introduced to the colonial roots of the Westernized university with a particular focus on its systemic allegiance to Euro-Western ways of knowing. In the context of increasing reconciliation discourses in Canada, learners will be exposed to the structural ways that settler colonialism has shaped the university system, its disciplines and teaching practices with the goal to inspire instructors to attend to academic colonialism in their disciplines, and more proactively include Indigenous perspectives across the curriculum
Back Close Up 5
No full textBack Movement Close-uphttps://ir.lib.uwo.ca/healthed_anatomy/1092/thumbnail.jp
Neck Lateral Flexion Close Up 5
No full textNeck Lateral Flexion Close-uphttps://ir.lib.uwo.ca/healthed_anatomy/1087/thumbnail.jp