Eadin Block
In my pieces, I showed the development of emotion through colors within landscapes. In our lifetimes, we emote so much, and our emotions and how we express them define us. When we are young, we learn the categories of emotions: sad, happy, angry, scared…. However, emotions are so unique to us and our understanding of the world. They can blend, just like the world and nature. Thus, I used a story of two mountains to express different emotions and what they are like to me. My pieces follow two mountains, one smaller and one larger. We follow the journey of the small mountain becoming the larger mountain within my pieces: their envy, their grief, their hope. We can feel with the mountain and relate to it, having felt emotions like that of the mountain. We always strive to achieve a goal, and our journey to it is filled with fear, sadness, frustration, and a multitude of emotions as we traverse. You can also see throughout the pieces different color schemes for each emotion. Emotions, with their infinite complexities, can be colored in so many ways. We might think blue for sadness, but sadness can be a multitude of colors, and sadness is defined by so many factors. The colors I chose embody my emotional experience, and what I think the mountain would be feeling. All within the pieces, you can see the colors, the emotion, all within the journey through the trees, up slopes, and over the great ocean.