Pretty, Pretty.. What About the Rain?"

My curiosity was first sparked by Jane Buyers, who is a Canadian multimedia artist who evokes the human presence and its impulse to manipulate through drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Upon seeing her work I then wanted to work with pill bottles. I included and a poster to create the feeling of an advertisement.

Originally, I thought about making pill bottles out of clay, or paper mâché. In the future It may have been better to develop the artwork this way, and I would have liked to make little bottles out of casting or 3D molding. However, I wanted to keep the presentation literal and decided to use the actual pill bottles. I removed the labels and stuck on labels of my own which said quirky symptoms like “did you hear that” or “I cant sleep, I cant eat.”

Another artist whom I was inspired by was Damien Hurst, an English artist who often works with death as a central theme and has works with pills in his artwork. In my work, “Now, what did you say your problem was? I used candy, in replacement of pills. I think that that changed the message quite a bit, another option may have been to not use anything at all inside the pharmacy bottle, or at least maybe something that looked like pills.

I would like to continue to develop this theme and am really fascinated with fluxes boxes, the gathering of everyday materials and assembling them in containers, suitcase or intriguing boxes. In the future I would like to create a similar concept expanding on the pharmaceutical bottles, while then change the presentation to work with boxes instead of the shelf.