Yudi Peng
Übermensch
Class of: 2028
Major: Fashion Design BFA
Medium: Paper engraving drawing(tea+war)
Faculty: Diana Shpungin
Prompt: Random selections of invented non- traditional materials will be chosen out of a grab bag as a launching point (the supplementary choice of materials and surface can be added as necessary to strengthen the idea). After a material is selected students choose a location and/or object(s) from politics, history, pop culture to render and in turn create new meaning through irony, metaphor, poetics, commentary, critique or symbolism.
Übermensch (superman)
The painting comes from a Soviet sculpture that tells the story of a Soviet soldier trying to grab a grenade used to assassinate the President of North Korea. I first draw so that there are no closed lines for carving, then use tea dye to cover a layer, and then carve off the surface of the pattern part. I think the soldier’s movements and explosions are like Superman’s flight posture.