Shattered Expectations, explores the expectations put on women by society.

I used the concept of shattered glass as a metaphor for perception, when looking through a pane of glass you see, one universal image but when it's shattered you have multiple shards that bend light and distort your view. This shows the world, not through the eye of the viewer, but through the eyes of the
people around them. Each shard is hand drawn using Caran d’ache luminance pencils and copic markers. For some of the shards I used imagery based on old propaganda from the 60s, through my drawings I adopted a comic aesthetic that I intended to link to the time period of the 2nd wave of feminism and the women’s liberation movement. Other shards express the effects of beauty and diet magazines, some show childhood symbols of suppression that young girls
are conditioned with and others illustrate everyday life for shaping women. The use of the warped mirror reflects the manipulation of perspective that members of society experience, possibly including the viewer.

My 3D art piece features techniques such as laser cutting, photo-realistic drawing, gilding, art, technology and digital screening such as illustrator and photoshop. I used the materials of wood, dowel, paper, mirrored acrylic and transparent acrylic sheets. I also used copic markers, Caran d'ache luminance pencils and spray paint. As subject matter, each shard represents an expectation upheld by society. For example, the bottom black and white shard of the signal for quiet represents the concept of silencing women, the barbie doll represents the conditioning of women from a young age, the corset represents a symbol of ffemale repression and the clothes line represents the idea of a confined stay at home mum.

When the viewer walks past this piece they see all the various layers that went into the artwork, these act as a metaphor for all the hidden layers of societal expectation relating back to the theme of this artwork.