Grade: 12
Artist Statement: My work follows a certain theme to it, one that deconstructs the literal meaning of “Home” and transforms it into something more. To me, home is not a place or an object, anything tangible for that matter. Home is the emotions I feel when I think about the most influential people (or animals) in my life. It is the emotions I feel when honoring their memory, dead or alive, through artwork. It’s my only hope that when someone looks at these 5 pieces, they will be reminded of home at least once. I would love my art to be a silent conversation with the artist and its critic, I think that’s what it’s all about. Home is not an uncertainty. It will always be there no matter where you go, or move to. My parents’ house will always be our house. My dog will always be a piece of my home wherever I go or whenever fate decides it’s time for us to part. My grandmother, who used to be a dancer, will always keep the happiness brought from her passionate career into my mothers home, which then translates to mine. Home is a web we are all interconnected to. By examining this art, studying it, have a conversation with the brush strokes on the canvas. Look into my most personal aspects of home and honor the moments now made eternal by a 17 year old starving artist. Thats why artists do what they do, right? They immortalize themselves and their subjects against the cruel hand of inevitable time. I just hope this conversation was worthwhile.
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