Senior Seminar

For Frank Chang’s ARTS 496 Seminar in Studio Art, we were assigned to base a project on a reading discussed in class. I chose Sarah Ahmed’s ‘Happy Objects’, a reading which questions the concept of happiness and whether or not society really has the ability to choose what makes them truly happy. I wanted to screen printing T-Shirts that resemble graphic tees found at a Target or Kohls, having clear identity but lacking personality besides the person wearing the shirt. My design is corporate in style, lacking detail to make the figures seem more relatable to a larger audience. I drew from Adventure Time as well as Charlie Brown to create my characters, which were all drawn in my sketchbook before being scanned and printed as screenprint positives.

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