CONNIE ZAMORANO

“Drapery can be perceived as covering something and at the same time as revealing or about to reveal something” Gen Doy. 

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Through two-dimensional representations, I explore gendered physical relationships between males of a particular age bracket and my struggle with impermeable implications that go along with different gender's involvement in these physical rituals. I am interested in levels of reality, sensuality, texture and drapery that permeate the physicality of figures and boundaries.

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The manifestation of drapery plays several important roles in the imagery. The folds in the fabric are a type of artifact that records the history of movement. The residual motion gives the affected fabric the implication of physical and allegorical tension as well as a release in my attempt to encapsulate the essence of the interactions. It is rendered in a way that mimics lush Hellenistic sculpture in order to amplify the objectification and monumentality of my personal perspective. 

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The drapery,  becoming its own entity, engulfing the entangled figures. It is often used as a form of protection (as clothing) which implies close contact with the body. The I experiences the physical and emotional exclusion from the rituals, leaving unfulfilled curiosity and longing for that foreign type of contact.

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-2012