Based on The Sense of Normality by Anna-Lisa Barrett
Artist Statement:
This art piece wasn’t the most satisfactory work personally. I made this through the course of several days, but it didn’t become what I wanted it to. Based on Anna-Lisa Barrett´s poem, ‘The sense of normality’. The art piece features a lady grasping at a curtain backdrop, said drape simulates the outside, with lots of nature and only a few depictions of people. The mostly green color pallet was a choice to reminisce on the nature in my hometown. The way she looked at the sky and grasped at the scene was meant to dramatize the pain I found once I understood the poem. The writing spoke to me through the longing for the outside life in the pandemic. It had many aspects I didn’t focus on because what I had decided to highlight, was the feeling of loneliness, isolation, and desperation. This were the feelings I wanted to show as dramatically as possible.
Even after the pandemic that feeling stuck around in different ways. For some reason the sentiment that was expressed by the poem, I associated with the pain I felt migrating to study in Canada. I still felt so alone and lost and desperate. I suppose the desperation tied to both situations were ones of distress for connection, and for the special moments that were lost in time.
Artist: Isabel Cevallos (Iso)
Program: Visual and Digital Arts
Isabel Cristina Montoya Cevallos, is a Colombian artist born in 2004. In august of 2022, she travelled to Canada to begin her secondary studies at Humber College. She graduated high school 2021 and studied Plastic Arts in (FUBA) Bellas Artes. Informal practice of art was practiced through her life, influenced by her mother handcrafted leather bags which she would paint with well known artworks from Picasso, Salvador Dali and Oswaldo Guayasamin. Her paintings of forests and flowers are influenced by south american artist's and the environment. Due to her fond passion for animation, she developed characters and created digital content. Highly influenced by subcultures, the Renaissance and Baroque.
