The question of what my art means has haunted me for a long time. Honestly, I just love making art. I’ve been creating since I was a kid; it was the one thing I was good at. But everywhere I look, people say there has to be a deeper meaning behind it. That there has to be something more.
I’m not the most social person. I tend to stay in my head, caught up in my own world. Art is how I release those thoughts to the public, how I express the things I don’t say out loud. If there is a message behind my work, it’s about the deep human emotions; the dark, the vulnerable, the insecure, the painful, and the joyful. I want to take all those feelings I keep to myself and put them into my art so that others can experience them too.
I don’t just want to create, I want my work to make people feel something. I want it to have a lasting effect. I don’t want to live and die as just a blur, forgotten. I want my existence to mean something, leave an impact, to make someone feel something real. I want my audience to feel everything. I want them to feel deeply, weak, sad, emotional, and raw, just like I do. I haven’t created new pieces in a while due to life taking over, but for my BFA, I’m planning on pouring everything into my work. There’s a lot I need to express, and I’m ready to bring it to life.
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| Medusa |
This is my piece of Medusa. I’ve always felt for her. She didn’t deserve what happened to her. The gods did her dirty. In today’s media, she’s always portrayed as a villain, but in reality, she was a victim. For this piece, I wanted to show her in a different light: vulnerable, innocent, not the monster people make her out to be.
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| Disconnected In A Digital World |
This is a poster I made about technology and isolation. Even though we live in the modern era, where we can talk to people across the world, things haven’t changed much. We’re still disconnected. We don’t interact the way we used to, and ultimately, technology hasn’t stopped people from feeling alone.
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| LLJ |
This piece is a tribute to a rapper
XxxTentacion, who was killed. I wanted it to feel sad but also hopeful. Death is terrifying, but in a way, it’s also freeing; free from judgment, society, and pressure. It sucks, but it happens to all of us. And if you’re religious, at least you get to go to heaven… or whatever you believe in.
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| Plato's Cave |
This is a book cover design I came up with for Plato’s Cave. The eye represents seeing through the bs and gaining knowledge for yourself. It’s about breaking free, thinking for yourself, and becoming enlightened.
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| Amulet To Ward Off Disease |
No comment. Was a piece for my typography class.
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