Name: Jennifer Mathis
Title: I wonder if I’d be happier
Creation dates: December 2010 to January 2011
Media: Pencil sketches, adobe Photoshop, and windows live movie maker.
This video is based upon Hazel Dooney’s blog post “a Point of No Return”. In which she considers a life where she quits painting, deciding instead to work a “nine-to-five McJob”.
As her writings move from speculation about life with a normal job, to remembrance of the time she had that sort of job, the on screen Hazel transitions. Beginning as a realistically rendered pencil drawing with shading and texture, she transforms to a single line ink drawing, finally becoming a version of herself rendered in a style similar to her iconic enamel paintings.
This Hazel stripped of detail, flattened and encapsulated in the world of the nine to fiver, and is how I imagined her if she had quit art: a vibrant, colourful individual, surrounded by a greyed out world who would eventually succumb to the draining of all colour herself.
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