Brandilee

Fine Artist

Creative Portfolio

Discarded items or waste provide a bountiful, although largely ignored, resource. It is an interesting to appropriating found objects to give them a second life or share their story. This what inspired Brandilee to create works from scrap items from her art projects from job sites.. Deliberate scavenging for reusable materials can take them into new environments that spark fresh ideas. The methodology of found materials brings up questions about reconfiguring the appropriation of junk in ways that raise awareness of the nature of objects and products in modern life, consumption practices, recycling, and waste. Discourse surrounding the dichotomy between art and junk focuses largely on the connection between everyday objects and high-art objects with American consumption practices. Recent waste studies by scholars, such as Boscagli, Manco, Morrison, Schmidt, and Whiteley, demonstrate varying aims toward both elevating the status of trash as material ripe for fine-art making and as a conceptual conduit for raising awareness of the dangers in our rapidly increasing and accelerating consumer habits.

my works

Besides the repurposing Brandilee is also displaying the human body which is central to how we understand facets of identity such as gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. People alter their bodies, hair, and clothing to align with or rebel against social conventions and to express messages to others around them. Many artists explore gender through representations of the body and by using their own bodies in their creative process.

Fascination with the human body and its communicative capabilities in art is as strong today as it was in antiquity. artist Brandilee exploring the beauty and joy of bodily movement. Against empty backgrounds, the artist Brandilee depicts a mesmerizing compilation of human figures within a realm unsusceptible to earthly physics then ties in the conceptual conduit for raising awareness of the dangers in our rapidly increasing and accelerating consumer habits.

Fine Artist

Brandilee

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