Self Reflection

one. The map project and the artist's activism project were the projects that were most engaging to me. They allowed me to express all three ideas of an interesting conceptual, emotional and physical piece. In both, I felt especially motivated to finish the project and create something that made people think deeper about my project.

two. I think I have become more invested in the emotional and conceptual parts of my art much more than before this year. Before this year, I think I made projects solely because they were visually pleasing, and had no real deeper meaning behind them. I think this year, I have become more comfortable in creating something that is conceptually and emotionally interesting in addition to being visually pleasing.

three. My map project and activism project were the most successful as they expressed the three important aspects to me: visual, conceptual and emotional. The most frustrating piece was text in images because it was conceptual difficult. My ideas for what I should do constantly changed, and was hard to stay invested in one of them. It was hard to feel motivated to complete something that I wasn't fully or mostly invested it. I think my teacher allows for a project to be very broad, which can be good and bad. Projects that feel so broad, ex. text in images, make it hard on the student to gain inspiration on something. Additionally, projects that are broad can be good because they allow for more growth as the student isn't confined to one subject. I think starting the year with more focused and less broad projects and gradually making them more and more broad as the year goes on helps the student find what they like to create and how. 

Artists statement

I make art as a means of better understanding subjects I am interested in: the political, sociological, and economical questions of the world. Creating visually intriguing objects provides a different access point to consider the subject. I endeavor to create something that is visually pleasing when first seen, but under deeper inspection, it evokes emotions from the viewer and makes them think more about it.  I like to have a balance between the conceptual, visual and expressive elements of every sculpture I make.

I am most often drawn to wood and plaster to create my artwork; wax, clay, plastic, paper and other materials also come into play..  The flexibility in how each is able to be used allows me to explore the large amount of things I have interest in while keeping each of the sculptures based in the materials I enjoy manipulating. While creating my pieces, much of the materials I use and how I express reflect my feeling about something. The normally smooth and white plaster or the rough and dirty wood can also be transformed to the opposites. I like use the materials as how they are originally, as well as change them completely and change the perspective of how they might be used.