College of Staten Island B.F.A. Senior Projects
Dayshon Holder
C Is for Conditions of Human Animals
In this body of work, I paint humans as animals, which I call hybrids. Hybrids are creatures that are produced from two different species. I am interested people that transforms into creatures, like werewolves. My work is painted portraits of hybrids with many expressions of conditions that affect mood, thinking, and behavior in the modern human era.
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I paint a variety of modern settings like rooms, streets, city buildings, and sidewalks. Backgrounds help me convey emotions. My process is to create the background first before I paint my subject matter. I started my first step of painting skies by tapping the canvas with my brush to make mist. For buildings, I painted some vertical strokes to make some details to show how they look like in real life. My focus is saturation colors for rooms to show the gloominess for the portrait of hybrid people.
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My work matters to both human and animals, because their emotions are related to the same suffering from trauma. It changes behaviors drastically. For the hybrid people, it is interesting to show their characteristics in similar ways, because the can relate to the human world with fewer maintaining of human behaviors.
Artist Bio
Dayshon Holder is an American artist who lives and works in New York. He Draws and Paints from imagination and sometime in real life. Holder Earned his BFA at College in 2022. He exhibited in the CSI Research Conference 2022.
Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 in., 2022
Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 in., 2022
Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 in., 2022
Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 in., 2022
C Is For Condtions of Human Animals series