Within, 2024
Hi everyone! My name is Ai’jhana and I’m currently a junior with a concentration on painting/drawing. I love all forms of art, music, video games, cartoons— anything of that nature. My experiences and interests influence my art whether it’s on purpose or unconsciously. I’m an oil painter but I love working with multiple mediums like ceramics, graphite, charcoal, gouache, and digital art time to time on my iPad.
Some of my personal work delves into my identity and the intersectional aspects of it. I’ve always liked to have a creative outlet and enjoy the experience of sharing that with others while being able to witness everyone’s perspective. I don’t have just one set tone for the stuff I do but I would describe it as colorful and whimsical as I like to pull from childhood media, an example being adventure time. An artist (he’s really a director) that I’d say I’m inspired by is Spike Lee as he makes films based on social issues and the black identity. Another artist I’m inspired by is Sasha Gordon, she makes surrealist oil portrait paintings that covers the topics of misogyny, racism, and homophobia. Both execute their craft in ways that show their self expression and takes on the issues they want to talk about.
Quotes from Susan Sontag
“Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.”
This reminds me of how I like to capture memories as I feel as though it’s important to have that experience to physically look back to.
“Those occasions when the taking of photographs is relatively undiscriminating, promiscuous, or self-effacing do not lessen the didacticism of the whole enterprise”
I think this can go for anything someone does, your works’ ‘value’ or ability to be impactful doesn’t have to be measured by the materials or methods in which it was done.
Here are some of my other artworks (: !
The Banjo Lesson (Master Copy), 2024
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