This first piece is an abstract painting that represents fall by using mostly triadic colors (purple and green and yellow). Like most abstract paintings, many people saw something different. However, when I was creating it, I wasn't considering what others might see, but mainly what I felt I saw. While painting, I felt a strong longing for my family and friends at home because fall is that special season for me. It's full of so many special memories of so many special people that collectively create a mosaic in my heart.
The second one is made to represent rhythm, using analogous colors.
How I came up with the concept: I was relaxing on a sofa after a long, hot afternoon, and about to enter one of the deepest sleeps I have had - and this 'billowing, blooming' image appeared under my eyelids. So during class, bored out of my mind, i sketched it out. It became this sucker!
While I've been at Ringling, it's been an incredible experience - don't get me wrong - but like many, (because there's always that kid who's ready to get away from home, well, I wasn't that kid) I began to feel lonely, because leaving home the world became a massive space of people and scary things. Massive, loud with hate and selfishness, wittiness, smiles, tears, laughter, screaming, hands and bodies and faces and smells and the heat. I was congested and terrified.
But so far, it's all been worth it.
Is it easy? Heck no! Nothing worth pursuing is going to be easy.
Just have to push through the colors, I guess, and then everything will turn out the way it should.
