What Art Means to Me
Ever since I was a child placing frog stickers on paper, I found it easiest to express myself and the worst/best of me in my artwork. I look back and am able to tell when my darker years were, and how happy the other ones are. Despite not remembering making the art, I recall every emotion I felt with every brush stroke, breath and scribble. What my mind was thinking, and why. What it represented, how it resembled then and now. It's a timeline of my best and worst times, a beautiful mess.
The wonderful thing about art is it gives others, besides the creator, to give the piece a new definition, a new feeling, a new experience… their own personal touch of perspective. This is what motivates me and fuels my passion to draw, to write, to create - the fact that others can find themselves in my own artwork, my own experiences, me. When I draw or paint, I don't create beauty, I recreate emotion and circumstance. I create me, in that moment, for others to interpret and feel. This is why I'm strongly against "borrowing" ideas or visuals from other artists, you're not redefining or inspiring anything, you're copying someone else, making the art artificial and contrived.
Art is in everything I do, everyday, whether it be out of passion or boredom. Art is in the ridges of a tree, the clouds in a sky, the picture that makes us FEEL something or ponder. For me, art is a nostalgic piece of my past, present, and future. It's up to you to transform, manipulate, distort and relate. And that's what makes art beautiful.
The wonderful thing about art is it gives others, besides the creator, to give the piece a new definition, a new feeling, a new experience… their own personal touch of perspective. This is what motivates me and fuels my passion to draw, to write, to create - the fact that others can find themselves in my own artwork, my own experiences, me. When I draw or paint, I don't create beauty, I recreate emotion and circumstance. I create me, in that moment, for others to interpret and feel. This is why I'm strongly against "borrowing" ideas or visuals from other artists, you're not redefining or inspiring anything, you're copying someone else, making the art artificial and contrived.
Art is in everything I do, everyday, whether it be out of passion or boredom. Art is in the ridges of a tree, the clouds in a sky, the picture that makes us FEEL something or ponder. For me, art is a nostalgic piece of my past, present, and future. It's up to you to transform, manipulate, distort and relate. And that's what makes art beautiful.