ANN SMART
Presents
the '' Black Series ''

'' During my creative process, it is important for me to apply the concept of

“Reduce, Reuse and Recycle”.

As such, ''The Black Series'' was created using recycled fashion magazines and/or other day to day recyclables not only to create art but in the hopes of encouraging viewers to ask themselves questions about the environment and their every day consuming habits. 

I use black paint because I’m fascinated by the shade’s depth, richness, and everything it can evoke. Black is at once the sum and the absence of all colors. The perfect paradox.

Black, so that my art may symbolically express an annihilation of all that could have been, all that we may have consumed, and the end of the world as it is. ''