After you check Kat Martinez’s (BFA ’21) still-life illustrations she wishes that look for charm, but then when you look closer she wants you to see all is not what it seems.
“I needed to truly mark off those people, Dutch vanitas [still-life images] where they appear very staged but then after you take a closer look it appears a small from-placing and after that you pick a dead travel or something,” told you the 3rd-season color scholar.
“We have constantly had they claim, ‘Oh, I like one set, I go around getting vacation’ otherwise ‘We went indeed there to own my honeymoon’,” she said. “That is great but someone usually let me know it is so gorgeous and you will there clearly was so much eating but that is only what they want one pick that will be exactly what my personal still-life concerns.”
My personal grandmother stumbled on the usa inside a small boat. She was having about three most other families and she cannot know the way she managed to get,” Martinez told you. “You ought to be really desperate to merely get on an effective ship and wade very I have always known her and you may my personal mom for that and you will my personal pops also.”
Prior to visiting PAFA, Martinez attended the new Business College of one’s Arts when you look at the Miami. In the arts high school Martinez told you work she produced is 
actually most visceral, paying attention regarding build than techniques.
“You to definitely whole saying out-of ‘bloodstream is more substantial than simply liquids,’ I imagined which was quite interesting and so i did a great large amount of illustrations examining that layout and you may saying,” she told you.