"DEJECTION" DIPTYCH
"DEJECTION" DIPTYCH

Drawing

"DEJECTION" DIPTYCH

I welcome you to my graduation pieces: a diptych about grief and post-traumatic stress through the eyes of self-portraiture. This dual composition explores the wounds and the healing process I went through after losing my best friend to mental... More

"Dejection" Drawing #1 ("DETAIL")
"Dejection" Drawing #1 ("DETAIL")

Drawing

"Dejection" Drawing #1 ("DETAIL")

Dejection: according to the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and Thesaurus, is a “feeling of being unhappy, disappointed, or without hope.”

"Dejection" Negative Drawing #2 ("DETAIL")
"Dejection" Negative Drawing #2 ("DETAIL")

Drawing

"Dejection" Negative Drawing #2 ("DETAIL")

My perception changed with the negative inverted drawing, adjacent to the original drawing, purposefully placed upside down.

Work by

Ivana Tovilla-Bátiz

Drawing and Painting (DRPT)

“Digital technologies, maquette making, collage and photography are integral to my art practice. Process is everything, and it becomes my obsession. Drawing, for me, is intimate between the artist and...” [More]