What is the central idea of your concentration?
The central idea of my concentration is a focus on lips and mouths with an emphasis on color and texture. 

How does the work in your concentration demonstrate the exploration of your idea? You may refer to specific images as examples. When referencing specific images, please indicate the image numbers.
My pieces are all paintings of lips deconstructed and put back together or multiplied.

My concentration is distorting lips/mouths with an emphasis on texture. At this point I feel like I need to go back to at least half of my paintings and add more to them. I feel like I am going to go in the direction of making the lips kind of creepy and layering in more texture. I want to start to use different color palettes like cool colors instead of warm. At this point I'm kind of uneasy because I really just want to go back and change a lot of my paintings to make them look more developed.

This one is not my least favorite but all of my paintings are at school so I couldn't take a picture of them. My least favorite would be my smallest one of someone screaming with a purple background. With this painting though, I hate the colors that I used. I want to go back in and put some dark purples and blues into the lips. Do you think that would be a mistake?

Concentration

My concentration is painting lips/mouths in acrylic paints focusing on texture and color. I think I am going to start focusing on a darker pallet inside of lighter colors.  

Poster Poster

That is my sponsor in the background and that creepy white blob in the corner is me. We didn't have anyone to take our picture for us so I had to take it. It's creepy... I know.

My concentration

My concentration is expressions found in mouths. It will probably morph into something else but I really like painting and drawing mouths and lips so that what I'm sticking with. I am currently finishing to paint this picture but I'm only using it as a rough guide:

Peter Callesen

Peter Callesen- http://www.petercallesen.com/home/
Peter Callesen was born in Copenhagen in 1967. He is a Danish artist and author. He creates his artwork with A4 paper in large-scale installations. Each of his works have only used one sheet of paper. He uses paper because he says it is "probably the most common and consumed media used for carrying information today," but we "rarely notice the actual materiality" of it. Callesen believes that it is a "material that we are all able to relate to" and at the same time it is "neutral and open to fill with different meaning." As he states, "The thin white paper gives the paper sculptures a frailty that underlines the tragic and romantic theme of my works."
The emotions in his artwork are very raw because of the little use of material. It is really easy to see what his goal was.
Here are some pictures:

Terry Border

Terry Border- http://bentobjects.blogspot.com/
Terry Border is an artist who makes everyday objects come alive. Using household items and plain old wire, he creates hilarious scenarios we can't help but laugh at. His secret? He just imagines the saddest situation for a certain object and then builds around that idea. Why? It's usually the saddest situations people most connect with!
“I don’t mean for everything to be funny,” says Border, who lives in Indianapolis. “We all have different perspectives and my perspective happens to be kind of strange and twisted.”
The use of movement and his perspective are really well done.
Here are a few photos: