painter, animator, illustrator, and anything engaging
Artistic Journey
Artist Statement
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Univerity of Art London
Senses
My creative practice is a journey of multi-media exploration of identity within the cities, while also delving into profound philosophical questions. This journey melds traditional and digital art forms with a deep sensory experience inspired by the limitations of my vision.
Observation:
Observation is my starting point, and my artistic journey is deeply influenced by my visual impairment. I begin from a place of difficulty, as I explore and attempt to understand the world around me. It's a process of uncovering the unseen, embracing the challenges and unique perspective that my impaired eyesight offers.
Materials and Methods:
Within my creative practice, I employ a diverse range of materials and methods, encompassing wood, ceramic, resin, graphite, digital tools, strings, ribbons, sounds, cameras, collages, and digital editing. These materials and methods serve as instruments for my exploration of the essence of things, bridging the tactile and the digital.
Seeking Understanding and Connection:
My overarching goal is to understand and connect with what I perceive. Through my work, I aim to engage viewers, inviting them to see and feel the world the way I do. The use of images and sensory elements draws the audience into a shared experience of perception and connection.
Urban connections
I want to understand and connect with what I perceive. Through my work, I aim to engage viewers, inviting them to see and feel the world the way I do.
My creative methods are inherently experimental, whether in the creation of videos, drawings, photographs, or digital images. I engage in repetition, not in search of a specific form, image, or sound, but to capture the atmospheric essence in which these forms, images, or sounds are embedded. The journey itself holds more significance to me than any predetermined destination.
As I seek the essence of things, I generate internal philosophical inquiries and respond to them by questioning the environment. I view the process of research as an essential subject of my practice, emphasizing that the journey and the exploration are where the true value resides.
Environmental Responsibility and Identity:
As an impactful artist, I also explore the responsibility we bear toward the environment, especially in the context of technological advancement. My work grapples with the broader concept of identity, an enduring theme throughout history, now further complicated by the globalization facilitated by the World Wide Web. Having emigrated from my country as an adult, I seek to understand the ever-evolving significance of identity and the various ways artists navigate this complex terrain.
Influential Readings:
My practice is informed by authors, such as Tania Bruguera's "Immigrant Movement Manifesto" and "Manifesto on Artists' Rights," as well as Gaston Bachelard's "The Poetics of Space." Lisa FitzGerald's "Digital Vision and the Ecological Aesthetic" has also contributed to my exploration of the intersection between technology and the environment.
Identity search
Portfolio
Collaboration - Animations
Keroseno y Finito Podcast demo
Intro and Outro animation
August 2023
This is the vibrant podcast outro animation, where tales of mental health and LGBTQ+ experiences against the backdrop of Edinburgh's lively streets. 🌈 This animation is the intro to the Keroseno and Finito Podcast, where each frame tells a story, with the essence of our shared human experience. Join the conversation! ✨ #ColorfulPodcast #MentalHealthStories #LGBTQExploration #edinburgh
Drawing board for animation
Videos and Animations
Fine arts
Prints and Ink paintings
Drawings and sketches
Paintings
Graphic Design
NFT
"My work talk about the intangible connections that surrounds us. It wa made during a period dealing with my partner mental health illness.
I hope to inspire wonder and introspection within the rythm of my work on textures."
City 15 - Connections
NFT collection
This collection features a total of unique
images, each based on one of Charli098's rubbings, digital drawings and photographies. Each image has been turned to an NFT.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the NFTs
will be donated to a charity that works to improve people's ability to connect to others. More info here.
With its unique blend of traditional and digital
art techniques City15 seek a celebration of the hidden connections that link us all.
March
City 15 - Connection - Ether
Reaching, knowing it may fade
Sadness
City 15 feels thick
dark water
gray on the ground
City Still I hope
Ether - Seeking silence
Manhole covers, water pipes, bricks, stones, iron gates, cement. Like a network that
left their mark on the streets and sidewalks.
They begin to see the beauty and complexity of the hidden networks that lies across city.
Still, walking
Earth - Access
Did I see
The colors and lines of the rubbings merge, coming to life, shimmering and glowing in the light, changing colour and shapes, hinting a secret realm.
February
January
familiar
seen
the essence
Ether - Cool indifference
Nothing
still, I hope
still, breakable
Ether - Limbo, stillness in ruins
Ether - Breath in
Earth - Leaning on you
Air - Home FlyingDream
still, waiting
Ether - Shattered from within
still, madness
Ether - Racing Mind
City 15 is cold
The water is concrete
City 15 is cold
The water is concrete
September
Ether - Silence
City 15 - Connections and can be seen and read as a journal. The collection explores the interplay between the familiar and unfamiliar, seen and unseen, tactile and digital using rubbing, drawing both digital and not-digital, collage and editing, to capture the essence of the urban environment. They incorporate digital tools into their practice to create hybrid forms that blur the boundaries between physical and virtual. Material, both phisical and digital, plays a central role in the work, reflecting within the rhythms and textures of contemporary life and creating a visual language which comes back into my work transformed and reused. The artist's aim is to understand and connect to what they see, seeking internal philosophical questions about identity and environment.
favourite contacts and social
@charli098charli
@charli098sketches
charlidesign@gmail.com