Capstone 2021: What Lies Here, What Lies Ahead
A collection of projects from Seniors in Digital Media Design
Kleine Powell
Degree: Digital Media Design
Title: Adolescence
Materials: Animation, Digital Design
Degree: Digital Media Design
Title: Adolescence
Materials: Animation, Digital Design
This piece is centered within the larger context of what it truly means to grow up. With age, comes wisdom, but it comes at a price. Our innocence is lost the moment we face adversity. This loss of child-like innocence is what I sought to capture in this piece- depicted through the adverse effect of a seemingly faint loss of color. Looking back on childhood memories, they seem so colorfully vivid and bright. As we age, the world seems to become grey as we sink into what feels most comfortable. Children don’t have this safety net; to them, everything is mysterious, wonderful, dangerous, and beautiful. This piece focuses on a triad of animated sequences that serve as placeholders for my cloudy memories and allows the viewer to revert back to the way a child would view the world.
Each short segment reveals a snippet of a core memory from my childhood that I could never fully describe. I felt that it was necessary to incorporate each scene as they are truly the building blocks for the nostalgia I feel when I look back on my early life. What it felt like for me to be play in the grass on the playground, own my first goldfish, daydream out the window of the room my sister and I shared, see a skyscraper for the first time, playing video games while adults were chatting in the next room, learning how to swim, rubbing your eyes to hard on purpose to see all of the shapes and colors appear, and holding hands with my parents but wanting to let go while crossing the street. All of which are memories that I cherish, but have forgotten how much they contribute to the person I am today.
By utilizing every skill I have learned during my time at the School of Art and Visual Studies, I have been able to encapsulate my personal feelings about this loss of innocence into one piece. This work also symbolizes the natural transitions in life and instructs us to not be timid of them, but instead to remain inspired, creative, and curious despite growing further away from youth.
Each short segment reveals a snippet of a core memory from my childhood that I could never fully describe. I felt that it was necessary to incorporate each scene as they are truly the building blocks for the nostalgia I feel when I look back on my early life. What it felt like for me to be play in the grass on the playground, own my first goldfish, daydream out the window of the room my sister and I shared, see a skyscraper for the first time, playing video games while adults were chatting in the next room, learning how to swim, rubbing your eyes to hard on purpose to see all of the shapes and colors appear, and holding hands with my parents but wanting to let go while crossing the street. All of which are memories that I cherish, but have forgotten how much they contribute to the person I am today.
By utilizing every skill I have learned during my time at the School of Art and Visual Studies, I have been able to encapsulate my personal feelings about this loss of innocence into one piece. This work also symbolizes the natural transitions in life and instructs us to not be timid of them, but instead to remain inspired, creative, and curious despite growing further away from youth.