I can not remember a time when I wasn’t doing some form of art. The walls of my dad’s garage are plastered with old finger paintings done by five year old hands to new photographs taken the day before. It’s just something that has been omnipresent in my life, and because of that, I see art in everything.
That’s really a distracting and wonderful gift, to see art in everything. Everywhere I go I tend to stop in the middle of my walk to gaze at some painting in a window, or graffiti on the sidewalk. This fascination isn’t just for the obvious painting or sculpture. I see the pleasing bends in a tree limb, the geometric beauty in a computer’s insides, the shining jewels of water droplets on a leaf or flower. I always wonder why I have this extreme appreciation, and I can only guess it’s from being raised in a house that taught me to appreciate all things art related, or maybe I’m just naturally hard wired into the right side of my brain. When I see or hear or touch a piece of artwork, I get this inner joy that I can’t explain.
For my own work, I have felt frustrations towards my lack of creativity. I always felt jealous towards the artists who could just sit down and whip up a piece out of thin air. Hard as I try, I’m not one to brainstorm ideas; however, I believe this is what has lead me to drawing and painting based off of real subjects, and of course, photography. This life style of appreciating every small artistic detail in every part of my world has given me so much power and creativity based on these observed sides of art.
Photography gives me the ability to capture the beauty I see in this world and give my own creative spin on it. With my photography (or all my art in general,) my main goal isn’t to be subtle or make people look for some alternative meaning. I want people to say “wow!” I want them to stop in their tracks and ask me questions about the photo. I want my photographs to give people that same feeling I do when I walk down the street and see something beautiful. I want them to be distracted by everyday life by something incredible. I want my photographs to be the storytellers of the incredible world we live in. In a fast paced world, we are so blinded to our surroundings, I want my art to give the gift of lifting those blinds.
Traveling has been a big part of my life. I take thousands of pictures with an urgent necessity to capture the beauty I see, because I know that memories fade and that my photographs won’t. I hope that in the future I can look at my photographs and remember the journeys I’ve been on, because they are so precious and important to me.
I love portraits. People are such complicated creatures and capturing just a sliver of the emotion, the personality, the life that the subject has lived is so difficult but so rewarding.
I’m going to a school for something science based, but I’m not worried about losing my relationship with art like I did Junior year. I have realized that my gift to see art in everything has never left me, and I don’t think ever will. The artistic side of my thinking has aided me this year tremendously with thinking outside the box in classes such as physics, calculus, and anatomy. (Who knew? Haha.)
That’s really a distracting and wonderful gift, to see art in everything. Everywhere I go I tend to stop in the middle of my walk to gaze at some painting in a window, or graffiti on the sidewalk. This fascination isn’t just for the obvious painting or sculpture. I see the pleasing bends in a tree limb, the geometric beauty in a computer’s insides, the shining jewels of water droplets on a leaf or flower. I always wonder why I have this extreme appreciation, and I can only guess it’s from being raised in a house that taught me to appreciate all things art related, or maybe I’m just naturally hard wired into the right side of my brain. When I see or hear or touch a piece of artwork, I get this inner joy that I can’t explain.
For my own work, I have felt frustrations towards my lack of creativity. I always felt jealous towards the artists who could just sit down and whip up a piece out of thin air. Hard as I try, I’m not one to brainstorm ideas; however, I believe this is what has lead me to drawing and painting based off of real subjects, and of course, photography. This life style of appreciating every small artistic detail in every part of my world has given me so much power and creativity based on these observed sides of art.
Photography gives me the ability to capture the beauty I see in this world and give my own creative spin on it. With my photography (or all my art in general,) my main goal isn’t to be subtle or make people look for some alternative meaning. I want people to say “wow!” I want them to stop in their tracks and ask me questions about the photo. I want my photographs to give people that same feeling I do when I walk down the street and see something beautiful. I want them to be distracted by everyday life by something incredible. I want my photographs to be the storytellers of the incredible world we live in. In a fast paced world, we are so blinded to our surroundings, I want my art to give the gift of lifting those blinds.
Traveling has been a big part of my life. I take thousands of pictures with an urgent necessity to capture the beauty I see, because I know that memories fade and that my photographs won’t. I hope that in the future I can look at my photographs and remember the journeys I’ve been on, because they are so precious and important to me.
I love portraits. People are such complicated creatures and capturing just a sliver of the emotion, the personality, the life that the subject has lived is so difficult but so rewarding.
I’m going to a school for something science based, but I’m not worried about losing my relationship with art like I did Junior year. I have realized that my gift to see art in everything has never left me, and I don’t think ever will. The artistic side of my thinking has aided me this year tremendously with thinking outside the box in classes such as physics, calculus, and anatomy. (Who knew? Haha.)
If this gift stays with me, it will forever help me to think in a creative way towards everything in my life, and my abilities to create will always be there with welcoming arms.
