Internet archived work not featured in gallery can be found here:

• The Archive Section Features almost all non documented pieces by Sirena Pearl. It ranges from childhood art to present day
• Current Youtube : Features Talks, Art process and animations.
• Old YouTube : Features my middle school time-lapse drawings. *Many of the videos contains non-original artwork.
• Animation Archives : Includes all animations made, not included in featured animation gallery

Featured Artwork by Sirena Pearl :

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2018:

Carnival: was a self-portrait I made in my senior year of high school. In 2018 I drew many grotesque, theatrical portraits. I was looking to find my individualism in my art and future as I tackled with depression.

2019:

Dream 1- Tsunami: My first story driven animation. Using Krita, I animated my reoccurring tsunami nightmares.

2020:

Samuel: At the beginning of the pandemic, I made a goal to improve my pet portraits. Initially, I wanted to improve the commission most asked for. I comprised this video in my portfolio as these pet portraits encompassed the prevalence of the art I made during the beginning of the pandemic. Around 2021 I finally broke out of this niche spell of focus. For a while, I was embarrassed that I spent a decent portion of a year doing drawings that felt more like a craft than an art.

Recently, I saw a gorgeous film about the artist Louis Wain. He drew psychedelic cats as an unconscious coping mechanism for his increasing schizophrenia. I recognized that my pet portraits were similar. Making these portraits felt like an escape from reality during the pandemic. I was able to distract myself with the small details of the pets while avoiding the uncertainty around me. I am now thankful for using these pets portraits as therapy but growing strong enough to break away when they were no longer a need.

2021:

Mural: In 2019 I painted a mural I hadn’t planned out. It was a whim and experimentation of what it felt like to paint on my bedroom walls. I wanted to redo this project but have a plan. At the beginning of 2021, I began writing ideas of what I envisioned for my bedroom wall.

During the time of planning, I immersed myself in historical art symbolism. I wrote down a list of symbols used in Christian art, The Four Humors, Vanitas, Memento Mori’s, Myths, and other forms of art and literature to encompass in my mural. I centered my mural around the rebirth of one’s identity. After planning the symbols, I measured and gridded my wall to see how much space I had. I then played out with several compositions on photoshop.

Originally I wanted to leave the background white, but I’m grateful I chose not to. I think giving the wall gradients of colors added to the surrealism and enabled a unification of the symbols. Nine months later, my bedroom wall had saturated colors and symbolism.

2022:

Binocular Vision: Just before bed, as a kid, I would simultaneously try to concentrate on two objects at once. I would attempt one eye on the window, one eye on my feet. My eyes would switch between points rapidly until I developed a mild headache. I later learned that if I had eyes like a chameleon, I would lack the ability to focus on details. Adjusting perspectives is inherently a human trait.

In my composition, I incorporated a reference of a distorted head to a favorite art piece, “The Ambassadors” by Hans Holbein. Looking at The Ambassadors at first glance, one generally misses the malformed skull. After a second glimpse, the bones look like an odd blur. After changing the viewer’s physical perspective, viewing the obscure object looks like a painted skull, a memento mori. If we did not change our perspective, we would never grow and view hidden details (visually and metaphorically). My piece incorporates a chaotic view of multiple perspectives of the same bodies, objects, and obscurities.

Binocular Vision was my first gallery winning piece since graduating high-school. It won 1st place in the Changing Perspectives National Juried Exhibit in the gallery underground.