Day break
2022 Markers and pens 12in” x 9in" I made this piece of artwork to demonstrate how making the most of each day can make life simpler and more enjoyable. My inspiration came from people who continue to hold their same viewpoints and do nothing to alter them, these individuals will continue to find the world dull and uninteresting. They must focus on the positive and new aspects of the world; if they do, their perspective will shift and they will start to see things differently. I demonstrated this, for example, by painting the biker and the bike in color while the background buildings have little color, and as the biker explores the town, he adds more color to each of the buildings. Everyone has a unique perspective on the world; some people may focus on its terrible elements while others may see its beauty or add their own beauty. The greatest way to perceive the planet is to see a little bit of both. Expanding your horizons occasionally requires changing your point of view.
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Blue Light
2022 Acrylic 18in” x 20in” Some individuals, such as tourists, may find it unfamiliar to walk around in a big city; these individuals may take pictures with their phones. After taking these pictures, they don't look at them again and leave them in their gallery. Why not take in the scene in front of you rather than taking pictures and viewing them on a screen? The subject of my art is how people can become completely immersed in their phones for up to 8 hours without realizing it. They would be on their phones for so long that they would be oblivious to what the real world really is. Instead, they use a handheld device to view the world instead of their own eyes.
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Expectations
2022 Oil Pastels & Yarn 19in” x 13in" I originally wanted to make a flip book about a person eating spaghetti and realizing that the spaghetti they had prepared themselves never ended, but they continued to eat it slowly until the brink of death. Where even as a skeleton they ate hoping the spaghetti would end but it never did. I didn’t create this idea because I realized it was out of my skill level. That's when I thought; expectations v.s reality. The human and the skeleton being a metaphor for when you have more expectations than you can handle not noticing that you are harming yourself because in the end you’ll disappoint yourself. In a sense, having high standards makes a person a perfectionist because they want everything to be flawless at all times. In some ways, having high expectations makes me a perfectionist, which is one of my flaws, but nobody is ever perfect.
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