STATEMENT OF WORK

When I do art, I escape into my own world and let it flow. I get lost in the colors. I draw what I am feeling or what I am scared about. It could be about life, change, being scared to confront people. When I draw the picture, I can let out all my frustrations. The image can represent the way I see that moment in my own mind. The mind is fun, you can do anything you want. Art has no limits, no censorship. You do what you feel in your art. It’s your world. It doesn’t have to make sense to everyone else. It just has to make sense to you.

I draw people from my imagination. They are characters I make up, superheroes I draw, named after people I know in my life. A lot of them are based on people I know. I am an artist with a disability. A lot of the characters I make, I base them off of things I struggle with. When I create a story, I want kids to see that, hey, these characters have a disability like me! 

Before, I was afraid to express myself in certain ways. When I decided to express my art in this new way, I learned a lot of other people feel the same things I do. A lot of people have anxiety. A lot of people overthink things. A lot of people are scared of the future and of life. I think my art can show that life is a big ball of mystery and it is scary because we can’t control life and we can’t control what happens. We wish we had some control over life but we can’t. I think it’s hard to live in the world not knowing what is going to happen today or tomorrow. 

If I don’t express the way I feel, I am not being true to myself. If I am not being true to myself, what’s the point of doing it?