Drawing Challenges

 

For this project, I decided to explore and experiment particularly with mark-making by means of folding paper, using a pencil for the marks on the wallpaper, silver paint/pen marks on the money bills, and I made some abstract lines with glue. I'm from two countries, familiar with both cultures, but wanted to integrate them into something unusually pleasing to look at. I feel overall satisfied with the project; however, it took some time for me to get going. 

As I was making marks and thinking of how to collage different pieces of the bills with the bark, wallpaper, or normal paper, I thought about the idea of how sometimes we let the money shape us. I think that money has power, but we should be the ones who shape and decide what we will do with it. That is why for the first project, I had folded an entire bill of Japanese 1000 yen bill into a collared tee with a tie. So often are we decieved by outward appearances, and especially in a consumeristic society, it's hard to not let money shape us.