Serina Stratton's Art Blog

Masking Tape Shoes, made completely out of masking tape, 6" x 2.5" x 9"

"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale." This picture was taken wile laying with my cat, only three days after I had adopted him. Looking back at this picture, it makes me think about how small he was. But I only know of his smaller proportions because my hand is next to his face in the picture. If my hand was not next to his face, the picture would not represent Vader as a kitten. It could represent him at any time in his life, just because there is no reference to scale.  "Capacity of objects is to serve as traces of authentic experience." Any time that I go grocery shopping is at 3 o'clock in the morning in my local Wal-Mart. During these trips, I almost always ride in the shopping cart and let whoever is with me push me around. This is the best part of any time that I go to the store. The cart (aka the capacity) is the experience that I long for the most when going grocery shopping. "The souvenir reduces the public, the mo...

Touch, inspired by Diane Ackerman.  After reading the touch chapter in A Natural History of the Senses, I had to filter through all of the endless thoughts I had to find what I wanted to replicate through art. The first thing my mind went to, was pain, since in the sequence of the book Ackerman covers that first.  "Pain was the price one paid for not being morally perfect. Pain was a self-affliction brought about by sexual repression. Pain was dished out by vengeful gods, or was the result of falling out of harmony with nature."  Pain is something that many people can have a complicated relationship with. Without it, everything is meaningless. Either it makes the suffering endless, or it stimulates you enough to get by. In my past I have followed the latter choice, but not without harboring what is left of it now. Back then, I remembered pain as a wave. It hits you and then takes control. This is allot like the idea of "seeing red" in rage, but it goes bey...