100 Days 100 Faces
I started this project during lock down due to (very popular) Coronavirus. I was missing my friends and missing seeing people around me so I thought by the end of hundred days I would have had 100 people around me to talk to. I wanted to express everyday bizarre human emotions through drawing. I wanted to do it in the way I perceive it. This way I created a design language for myself. I went beyond my usual design process by getting insights on my artwork from different people because I wanted to capture the diversity of human interpretation of face expressions.
I initially started with only one medium, paper but as I started exploring different materials such as linocut, cardboard, wires, clay, paper mache and textiles. I immediately realised that my design thinking thrives in versatility offered by this multidisciplinary approach. My favourite face of the series is a face sculpture that I created out of steel wires and embellished it with flowers. It represents the idea that we need to grow out of the cage that we create for ourselves.This project ignited in me a strong passion for communicating my design language through the power of mediums.