Siyu (Rita) Chen Clairmont
The focal point of my work is the voice of a woman in the context of Chinese culture. I want my audience to feel as if they can hear it as they walk through the sequence of a woman’s life. Throughout the work, they will see the evolution of a girl who matures into adulthood and hear the sound of her voice; each of the female figures communicate a story and speak in varying tones. Overall, my concept directly relates to the media I am using. I used watercolours to portray her in her youth as if to communicate that the child is capable of being transformed - the same way that watercolour can be altered with the adding or extracting of water. Acrylic, on the other hand, requires another layer of itself to be liable to change and thus, I use this medium to represent each figure from here on out. The density of the medium symbolises how it 42
