My Personal Beliefs About Death

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I would like this project to serve as a translation of my personal beliefs, experiences and knowledge learned from various courses about death. What I mean by translation is aside from articulating my beliefs about death in the form of words, or solely as a two-dimensional drawing, I would like to create a three-dimensional piece. I want observers to “see” what I see when I think about death and to get my observers to think about their own conceptions and beliefs about death. To accomplish this objective I propose a four piece art project. The first piece will capture transformative death, the second biological death and the third final death. Since my background is in sketching, each of the first three pieces will combine sculpture with drawing.

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