Teacher Name: Ms. Grimm
Grade: 12
Artist Statement: I wanted to illustrate the feeling of wanting to express my emotions and thoughts on the world. The lightning bolt resembling outlines are meant to represent the sharp intensity of my frelings as a senior trying to be understood by myself, and trying to express that to the world around me. I want to be acknowledged, I want my opinions to be acknowledged, even if it clashes with the standard, mundane, gray-like world’s views. I chose this image as I feel that in order to specify upon the fact that it’s about my thoughts and emotions, as my identity, and not my face, i want to show me, without a face to identify as me. My opinions, thoughts, and emotions are truly what define who I am. In my illustration of me in a red box, I want to illustrate realit versus what I thought of it in my mind. The red represents my thoughts and emotions, when sitting there, I imagined my hair to be slightly longer than it was, I was focused on my feeting pressing into the ground, and if the roof would break in beneath me, and when crouched down there on the roof, the coldness and not being able to actually see anything around me made me feel like I was isolated in a box. In my memory when I looked at those buildings, I did not think of there individual appearances, but I thought if there functions. They’re houses and shops in my mind, nothing more, than that, so I labeled them as I recalled. In my final work I wanted to provide a raw image, of what I used to create the other two illustrations. It represents that after putting out my thoughts and emotions, now with nothing else to express, I believe that I don’t truly have an identity anymore, and I believe that for everyone else, expression is the key to truly finding yourself as an individual.
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