Artist's Statement

I remember going to spend the day with my grandmother and my younger brother would head straight for the abundance of toys waiting for him while I would walk over to the table to sit down with my blank sheet of paper and a pencil to sketch flowers and figures or write poems and stories.

            This was, and frankly, still is, my comfort zone. My grandmother, for whom I am named after, fueled the creative fire (for lack of a less cliché term) inside me and urged me to push myself in new ways and hone in on my skills. This stuck through my academic years, outside of school at Parsons The New School where I took extra design classes, even up until right now where it will continue to stay with me for the rest of my life.

            Now, my work has become much more advanced and I am exploring different mediums outside of the pencil and paper where I began, but even the poetry and nature themes of my early work has translated itself into my current clay pieces and photography. While my personal sketchbook still remains constantly by my side, I also have two new ones filled with class assignments and inspiration for my current works such as my surrealist bust which depicts the psychology of nightmares or my studio photo shoot which gave me an outlet to voice my opinion on femininity and strength.

            People ask me if after college I would like to become an artist but the answer is that I already am one. I may not make a career out of my artwork but it will certainly always be apart of my life as a stress relief, as a way of expressing ideas and feelings that I have trouble verbalizing to others, and as a familiar comfort like an old friend. I don’t exactly know where life is going to take me and as a seventeen year old girl, preparing for college, there is not much that I can say I know for certain or that I will have forever but the creativity I was born is one of these stabilities and my one goal is to make sure that I continue to hold onto that.