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Art student at UBC in Vancouver. Half Dutch, half Canadian, born in Sweden and raised in Germany. I try not to limit myself to what I do and believe in creative freedom. I am passionate about painting, photography, clothes design and everything in between. The process of creation is part of the artwork, and I am dedicated to show this. I believe in looking inside the box and combining the obviously opposite. I hope to inspire and be inspired during this process of sharing, creating and finding new means of art.
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This artform developed from a surprisingly spontaneous situation. I had a class assignment due and was supposed to show my photoshop abilities. I sat down and thought about it, I didn't really have any amazing photoshop skills. So I went for the easiest tool: Cut and paste. I wanted to combine my paintings with my photographs and try to graze on the subject of truth and reality. Painting is not proof that the objects really exist, whereas photographic images are reality. The image creates a situation which seems real and plausible in our imagination, but is actually the farthest from reality. The objective was to contrast painting and photography and to make something absurd feel real and hence challenge the notion of truth in photography.
My passion for painting probably started in kindergarden when I first discovered the magic abilities of crayons. However more recently I engaged with aspects of magical realism and have had exhibitions on the relationship between objects and humans. I attempt to illustrate a very literal approach to the relationship between objects and people. The canvas is the actual object and there are up to three dimensions incorporated into the piece. In order to understand and view the work entirely, the viewer must interact with the object, in other words "look inside" the frame. The objective is to find a deeper individual understanding towards one's own relationship to the piece (the "object"). I also am inspired by combining the unplausible and create a new sense of reality.
I am not the most technical photographer out there. I photograph with passion and sometimes leave the technicality behind. I like to capture the essence of what I am taking a photograph of. I always let my models decide what they want to wear and how they want to look, because I find is extremely important that they feel comfortable in order to capture as much of their personality as I can. I like to challenge my models but never to the extent that they feel too self-consious. Photography for me is a passion and a way to survive a bad day, without it I would be lost in this world. There are so many things to take in nowadays that I want to make an effort to capture the essential and the importance of every day life.
None of these illustrations took more than half an hour. When I am sick of splashing paint around, but want to depict something more abstract than photography, I turn towards a quick illustration.
My reasons for designing clothes come from the reasons why I think the fashion industry is so wrong. I believe in creative freedom and opportunity, but a "fashion mindset" is based on rules: What to wear and what not to wear; in other words what is "right" and what is "wrong". I don't support this notion of absolute truth in clothing and want to deviler a different kind of ideology through my designs. My clothes are not made for anyone specific, nor do I label them as "men's" or "women's" clothes. I try to not conform to any trends, but rather breathe a fresh sense of freedom and creativity into the world of rule-bound fashion.
With my designs I want to spread a new way to look at clothes and see them as an opportunity for expression rather than conformity.
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Bec Wonders is a 18 year old art student at UBC Vancouver. She started to photograph at the age of 15 when moving to Sweden on her own and continued her path of creativity through many other art forms. She started to work with fashion and by the time she turned 16 she already had her own clothing line in stores. Exploring all kinds of new media, she soon turned towards painting and discovered a profound passion for it.
Currently she is still exploring and actively combining her artistic skills; whether it is painting with photography or painting with video, Bec is not limiting herself to one form of creation but rather expanding through collaborations and exhibitions. She is determined to combine the unconventional and present a new way of looking at art.
Started in 2007, this blog has posted about topics starting from fashion, music, painting, photography, design, illustration and personal. These are Bec's every day updates about which creative sphere she has decided to enter today.
Vancouver, BC
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