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| "Possession" Acrylic and pastel on board |
The second week of the academy, I was delighted the make the acquaintance of Sterling Hundley. Sterling's work is driven by ideas and synthesizing them to come up with totally unique images. He taught us his process of ideation and put us to work with this assignment.
We were required to take a ghost story from our home state and fuse them with the environment that surrounded us at that moment – the Kansas City West Bottoms. The story I chose comes from Key West, Florida and it is about a doll named Robert. The doll supposedly had a mind of its own and would control the boy who owned it. The boy grew to be an old man and kept the doll his entire life. The aspect of the story that really intrigued me was that this old man was still clinging on to something that is supposed to symbolize youth and happiness and the doll was in turn clinging to the man. I thought the title "Possession" was appropriate for this piece.
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