Thoughtfully, I have designed the creative process I undergo to be therapeutic. Between personal strife and constant submersion in academic excellence, I found myself needing an escape of sorts. I find that working abstractly doesn’t confine me to this box of technical success, that I can jump straight into a piece with nothing but a color scheme to start. My creative process typically means just going into a work. Experimentation is a major part of my work, and is what stimulates personal growth. Recently, I spent some time studying color theory to mix those very specific colors I found myself wanting. That is my process; the desire to learn how a material works, then manipulating it to flow within my piece. Truly, my goal is to make work that can simultaneously keep my interest and make me happy.
My gut instinct typically guides me through my creative process. While I do sometimes try to visualize a piece in my sketchbook, I tend to get excited by new media and immediately start my next work. My selection process essentially boils down to me coming across a medium that both seems practical yet is something I can really go to town with. An idea can come from anything as personal as relationships within my family to worldly issues to simply just liking a color palette. From my initial development, I gravitate towards working on wooden or fabric canvases, that is when my work comes to fruition. To put it simply, I love texture. The majority of my pieces I’ve made to be interactive and touchable because I find myself wanting to feel the texture in other works, so why not incorporate that desire in my own. Between layers of textures, trials, and giant messes, I can reach a finished, successful body of work.
Where I’m from is an important aspect of my identity. I find that the things I love the most are the furthest away, which at times can leave a festering emptiness. I’ve found that art can help in that it’s not a distraction, rather an outlet that serves as a way to help profess my frustrations in a process that becomes therapeutic. I seek to explore my mind. Exploration and experimentation define my process, but my discoveries throughout the process are what completes my piece.
My gut instinct typically guides me through my creative process. While I do sometimes try to visualize a piece in my sketchbook, I tend to get excited by new media and immediately start my next work. My selection process essentially boils down to me coming across a medium that both seems practical yet is something I can really go to town with. An idea can come from anything as personal as relationships within my family to worldly issues to simply just liking a color palette. From my initial development, I gravitate towards working on wooden or fabric canvases, that is when my work comes to fruition. To put it simply, I love texture. The majority of my pieces I’ve made to be interactive and touchable because I find myself wanting to feel the texture in other works, so why not incorporate that desire in my own. Between layers of textures, trials, and giant messes, I can reach a finished, successful body of work.
Where I’m from is an important aspect of my identity. I find that the things I love the most are the furthest away, which at times can leave a festering emptiness. I’ve found that art can help in that it’s not a distraction, rather an outlet that serves as a way to help profess my frustrations in a process that becomes therapeutic. I seek to explore my mind. Exploration and experimentation define my process, but my discoveries throughout the process are what completes my piece.