KILL THE LAST CHAMELEON


Sculpture
Fall 2022, 4 weeks


Tools: Bristol, Pebeo Moon Paint, Acrylic, Air-dry Clay
Team: Individual

Awards: Scholastic Art and Writing Regional Gold Key, Sculpture 

This installation portrays how the greed of humanity mutilates nature’s innocence. Upon close-up, each paper fold is an origami derived from a chameleon tailbone’s form. Chameleons are adaptable creatures, changing their colors to blend in. I think their existence is innocent. Contrastingly, the metallic silver and gold paint symbolize the materialistic ideology of humans. 

As innocence encounters greed, a dimmed dark shade eradicates the greenness of life, and only the glistening metallic paint shines through. These origami pieces coalesce to create an elegant leaf form that thrives upwards, yet, it is ultimately restrained by a corrupted human hand. I experimented with mixed media and how the overlap of different textures (rough and glossy) contributed to the overall feeling of a piece.