Art Gallery
Having the ability to create art is something for which I will be eternally grateful. Being able to put idea down onto canvas, or paper, or in whichever media one chooses is not only relaxing, but also extremely gratifying. Building and creating something from scratch with your own hands, and seeing the effect which that piece has not only on yourself, but also on all those who view it, is a unique experience each and every time; and it is this experience, this interest, and draw, and passion in which I hope to engage each time I create something.
Since I was little, I have been interested in creating. As I age, I have found this creative instinct not to fade but merely become stronger; entirely insisting that I work to make sure to incorporate drawing, painting, coloring, or building in at least one of its many forms into each day. As such, I have always loved art classes and have been extremely proud of what I have been able to create merely by using my hands and imagination. My preferred medium is acrylic paints, though I very much enjoy drawing with colored pencils and working with clay and glazes.
Included below are samples of a few of my favorite pieces, including an ink drawing, several paintings, multimedia pieces, a tile trivet bounded by wrought iron work, thrown pottery, digital artwork, and a mosaic made of crushed glass.
Since I was little, I have been interested in creating. As I age, I have found this creative instinct not to fade but merely become stronger; entirely insisting that I work to make sure to incorporate drawing, painting, coloring, or building in at least one of its many forms into each day. As such, I have always loved art classes and have been extremely proud of what I have been able to create merely by using my hands and imagination. My preferred medium is acrylic paints, though I very much enjoy drawing with colored pencils and working with clay and glazes.
Included below are samples of a few of my favorite pieces, including an ink drawing, several paintings, multimedia pieces, a tile trivet bounded by wrought iron work, thrown pottery, digital artwork, and a mosaic made of crushed glass.
A few notes about the pieces themselves:
The colored pencil sphinx was created to represent the connection between the Egyptian sphinx and the sphinx within Greek mythology, she who posed the famous riddle to the people of Thebes and which Oedipus finally answered, enabling him to become ruler of Thebes itself. Within the claw marks are the words to the Sphinx's riddle, from Athenaeus’s version,
“A thing there is whose voice is one;
Whose feet are four and two and three.
So mutable a thing is none
That moves in earth or sky or sea.
When on most feet this thing doth go,
Its strength is weakest and its pace most slow.”,
in addition to several other famous riddles and pieces of my own writing.
The mosaic depicts the moment before the hero Perseus confronts the Gorgon Medusa to defeat her, and is made using grout and recycled glass. The three pictures at the bottom represent the Greek goddess Hecate and the three stages of her daily life as a young woman, a middle aged woman, and an elderly woman representing the passing of day and her presence in the past, present and future, and are part of the same sculpture.
The colored pencil sphinx was created to represent the connection between the Egyptian sphinx and the sphinx within Greek mythology, she who posed the famous riddle to the people of Thebes and which Oedipus finally answered, enabling him to become ruler of Thebes itself. Within the claw marks are the words to the Sphinx's riddle, from Athenaeus’s version,
“A thing there is whose voice is one;
Whose feet are four and two and three.
So mutable a thing is none
That moves in earth or sky or sea.
When on most feet this thing doth go,
Its strength is weakest and its pace most slow.”,
in addition to several other famous riddles and pieces of my own writing.
The mosaic depicts the moment before the hero Perseus confronts the Gorgon Medusa to defeat her, and is made using grout and recycled glass. The three pictures at the bottom represent the Greek goddess Hecate and the three stages of her daily life as a young woman, a middle aged woman, and an elderly woman representing the passing of day and her presence in the past, present and future, and are part of the same sculpture.
My combined interest in ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology and creating artwork came to a head in my senior year of high school while I was taking an AP Studio Art course, and resulted in the creation of my final installation, titled “Movements in Time”.
Click here to visit my page detailing my AP Art Installation: Movements in Time - Connections Between Greek and Egyptian Art and Mythology.