Cami Gossman
Siren's Identity
Class of: 2028
Major: Interior Design BFA
Medium: Micro Pen on printed paper
Faculty: Diana Shpungin
Prompt: Employing unique mark-making techniques, students create an invented past and present landscape in two parts: half hand-drawn in ink/half digitally rendered in Illustrator, with the goal of the hand mimicking the digital method and vice versa.
“Siren’s Identity” shows a broken hand mirror made using Adobe Illustrator, and hand-drawing the other half with a Micro Pen on paper. The object of the mirror is made with one mark, which is a conch shell, drawn in different sizes and line weights. This conch shell reflects a story of the ocean and the identity of a siren through her broken hand mirror. This handmirror can reflect a siren’s femininity, and the power a woman’s beauty can hold. The fractures in the mirror signify the mythical creature’s broken or lost identity. This hand mirror can represent both feminine identity as well as lost identity in oneself.
