GIOVANNA ARANCIBIA MARQUEZ

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As a self taught digital artist, I do love working on Photoshop which offers multiple tools to express my creativity to create my own universe and show my world vision. Regarding my creative process, most of my inspirations come from nature, women but also my personal experience and I do love gathering different pictures to bring a perception of my idealistic-surrealistic world as a contemporary artist.

My aim with these three artworks is to emphasize women beauty as well as the animal kingdom and the deep connection between them, by adding textures, different layers of lighting and symbolism to enhance their magnificence in a surrealistic way. In my first artwork called ‘Animal instinct’, a jaguar is represented as a spirit animal, symbol of courage, intuition, confidence which also qualifies women in their integrity. The jaguar stands between two women bodies on which a plumage of a peacock blends into the skin : the woman integrates the peacock’s insurance and incarnates her Renaissance. This brings us to the second artwork called ‘Inner Self’ where I have decided to replace the whole female human body by a costume similar to a fur of a feline and her profile by a tiger’s face, which highlights women’s strength and independence. The association and comparison between a human being and a feline aims to enhance the importance and admiration of the animal Kingdom and women.

Finally, in my third artwork called ‘Harmony’, a slender figure is dancing between two polarities that bring this character to reach the unicity. I sublimated this woman whose posture seems to achieve a balance, surrounding herself by two koï carps which represent, in the Japanese culture, love and beauty but also strength and perseverance, as they constantly fight through thick and thin. I finalized this work by enhancing the carps with two different colors that put their duality together to reach this harmonious well-being.

In other words, my work is an invitation to question the viewers about their own existence and the connection they have with the animal kingdom.

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