Identity

Today I question who I am as an artist vs. who I want to be. My head is cleaved with ideas I want to pursue and my shoulders weighed down in reality. There are a few things that I know to be true:

• I get inspiration from literally everywhere. I want to capture the world with my eyes and hands.
• I cannot create everything.
• Yet I keep harvesting new inspirations from artists, my environment, online
• In the future I will have limited space for creating works and storing them.
• I get bored working in the same medium, I like to explore. I am compelled to.
• I forget myself and try to make work that will please the world. When I do this I usually fail.
• I am not a photographer, but I like to take digital photos.
• I pay attention to textures.
• I’m drawn to expressive works, but my work is highly controlled and representational.
• Today I focus on wildlife in my work, but in the past I created emotional biographical works.

Media I have worked in:

• Photoshop
• Digital photography
• Acrylic Painting
• Oil painting
• Pencil
• Ink
• Alcohol ink
• Up-cycled wood boxes
• Found beach objects: flotsam mobile type works
• Acrylic and alcohol ink on up-cycled windows/ canvas/ mixed-media
• Block printing
• Clay

Themes that interest me

• Water
• Places people leave behind
• Death and our relationship to it
• Archetypes
• Symbolism
• Patterns in nature
• Birds
• Cats
• Up-cycling
• Trees
• Textures
• Wabi Sabi

What I want:

• Harvest new experiences and work them into a new body of work
• Document the metamorphosis
• Use media creatively, wisely and expressively
• Narrow down my media choices
• Find myself as an artist
• Create fine art, but still have it accessible to a wide range of people.
  

I am overwhelmed by all the possible ways I could make art. My brain is drowning in ideas and I am paralyzed by choices. The more cerebral I get about the task at hand the more paralyzed and indecisive I am.

Who am I? And what is my art about?

Updated September 13, 2022