You know when you're little and nothing phases you at all? For all you know, you could be the next president of the United States and anything before you is yours. Including that blank piece of paper that within seconds turns into a drawing of a girl with a triangle skirt or a boy with one eye bigger then the other (non-intentional of course.) Back then I didn't need to think about what to draw, I just drew like every other kid. However, the difference between then and now is the importance of the drawing. I'm not sure what it is, but I've come to realize I have a slight obsession with trees and drawing them. They don't directly hold a huge amount of importance to me, but yet when I see them, I'm overcome with emotions. My guess is that trees go through transformations every year just as people do but they also grow and depending on their environment grow differently which is also similar to people.
A lot can change in a short amount of time, so why not keep the memories on paper in a single shot? That's why the easiest way for me to create art is though photography. I love feeling the buttons beneath my fingers and capturing a certain second but remembering a thousand memories before and after the caption that elicits strong emotions from that time in my life. Blurred backgrounds, the smell of chemicals, timeless, and black and white are the first things that come to mind when I think of that one word.
A lot of times, people might not fully understand the art that I make. Sometimes I think I make it to please my audience and to look nice, but I've learned that this isn't the type of art that's special to me. The type of art that's special to me holds significance to me and is something that will make me smile when I look at it because I remember a time or a certain event or even person behind it. Yeah, my work might look nice too, but it isn't about that. I want my art to please, but I mostly want it to please myself and I want people to appreciate it for what it is, not for what it isn't. People can interpret what they want from it weather good or bad and they don't need to necessarily understand the piece, that part is for me to know and others to guess upon.
