HERE, HAVE THE MOST RECENT VERSION OF MY ARTIST STATEMENT!
Chaos. Both the good and the bad. Sometimes my work comes out exactly how I want it to, after a few dozen tries and an emotional breakdown or two. Most of the time, though, I succumb to whatever I am feeling, and just follow that train of thought. Or rather, unpack my stockpile of emotions and create.
As a mixed media artist, I believe that, as frustrating as the chaos is, my art wouldn’t be what it is today without that chaos. Constantly thinking and feeling and doing more than one thing at a time, I embrace the mess and incorporate it all into my artwork. Pen and pencil illustrations of characters that I may or may not scrap later. Multi-layered acrylic paintings of nature or whatever my moody mind decides to come up with at that time. Discombobulated sculptures that are a mix of found objects or store-bought stuff litter my room. Anything with clay, whether it be pottery or a teeny tiny creature on its very own little pedestal, is far from smooth and pretty and perfect. Photographs, usually of nature if I’m lucky enough to catch something actually good in the moment, sometimes turn out blurry, or not as good as I would like them to be. Then there’s my digital art, which is brought into existence through cheaper means than the more commonly used yet infinitely more expensive options. But, from my point of view, this is all perfectly fine. I don’t need to do what mostly everyone else does. So what if my works aren’t perfect, or as good as they can be for the sole purpose of looking nice for others in the hopes that someone will recognize it? My work is all me. I revel in my creations' imperfections. It is what makes my work unique in its own perfectly imperfect way. |