This body of work is an insight on the teenage experience, with each work portraying a common but also uniquely personal teenage struggle. From juggling the pressure of academic excellence to struggling to find a sense of belonging among peers, the...
Materials: Procreate airbrush and painting brushes
Process: blending digital glitches with soft neutral brush strokes
Size: N/A
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Hey guys, I know it's been a while.
Lately, creating art has been difficult. I tell myself to just forget everything and draw, bleed into my art like I once did. But somehow, I just couldn't escape a self-imposed paralysis.
The pressures of creating for you guys and the constant desire to outdo myself have become a compulsion to consistently, never endlessly create art and writing that is both packed with narrative and depth and is rich with color and rhythm— art composed by carefully crafted metaphors and symbols, representations and introspections. Art that has social meaning.
But why does art have to be meaningful? The very act of intellectualization, thoughts, are the exact opposite of the free-flowing emotive nature of art. Why do I feel forced to tie down aesthetic beauty to the realm of logic and reason?
My obsession with meaning, I think, is rooted in my urge to legitimize art as a discipline worth pursing, as an indirect way to assign tangible value.
But I've realized that it's okay to allow the spontaneity of human expression to speak for itself. It's okay to paint a beautiful daisy because it's our unique way of memorializing the things we love and enjoy. The meaning of painting is allowing creativity to express our subconscious emotions. Opening the marker lid, getting out the paintbrushes — that's where the meaning lies.
So, what does "dressed in pink" mean?
Everything.
& Nothing at all.
You decide.
Thank you guys so much for all the positive messages and sticking with me.
Make your own meaning today, loves!
Note: this painting was based off of a beautiful photograph found on Pinterest!
