/Arina Kharakhashian
Arina Kharakhashian
Clark University, 2023, Arts Studio & Marketing
A Splash of Revelation
digital inkjet print
24″ x 36″
2022
I’ve always been captivated by the astuteness of red and blue colors shadowing at night from the lights in parking lots, college dorms’ windows, or neon signs at the bars. Capturing these colors through artificial lighting and combining it with an isolated setting allows me to replicate the loneliness and mystery I experience on the streets of Worcester at night. During my photoshoots, I tell my subjects to put on a mask of sadness to align their emotions with the atmosphere I strive to create. I find beauty and peace in this melancholy, and hope for my audience to relate.
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Arina Kharakhashian
Clark University, 2023, Marketing & Studio Arts
A Crime Board of a Woman’s body
mixed media: alginate, plaster, gold foil, yarn, 11 digital inkjet prints
30″ x 36″
2022
The long and ominous history of court decisions and laws regulating the woman’s body has detrimentally impacted and posed threat to a woman’s privacy, constitutional rights, bodily integrity, and personal choices for years. Through my series of eleven images of the different parts of a woman’s body being pulled by the hands with thick red yarn, I wanted to illustrate the firm and relentless grip that these laws have on a woman’s autonomy. However tight the grip may seem, the red yarn can indeed be broken, symbolizing the hope for the future decriminalization of womens’ bodies around the world.
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