Artist's Statement


            My love for the arts started before I could speak; according to my mother, I was always humming, even as a baby. As I grew up and dreamed about what I wanted to be, it was always some sort of artist. As a result, I am a very passionate and talkative person, and yet I do not readily open myself up to others. Art, for me, is a way to express my emotions on subjects that I cannot discuss with others. More than that, art is a way for me to create something entirely new, and each piece sets me on a journey on which I learn more about the art and myself.
            I often come up with ideas for pieces by combining aspects of reality with my own wild fancies. Each piece starts as a vague wisp of something I want to do, I then work on developing it and turning it into either a full-fledged animation or a still. My themes revolve mostly around either fantasy or my own emotions, and I always try and experiment and learn new methods. I believe my strength as an artist is that I am almost always willing to try new things and expand my skill set. I like to create art because it gives me freedom; I do most things for a reason—typically my future—but art is one of the only things in my life that I do simply because I enjoy it, and that is perhaps the only reason why I chose it to be my future.
            When I was first learning about animation and the 3D world, I mostly stuck to what I was familiar with: I am comfortable in the world of dragons and magic, which is why a lot of my pieces follow that theme. As of late, however, I have been trying to expand and express my emotions in my pieces as well. I think of emotions as fluid substances, however, and while I could try to recreate the images in my head in 3D, I think they could look great in 2D as well. As such, I have been looking more into 2D work and animations as of late, as it allows me to easily recreate the image that I have of emotions in my head. Essentially, I wish to create the visions I see in my head and share them with others, and art allows me to do that.

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