in the effort to be more vulnerable, here’s a piece of art I haven’t shared & I’m really proud of. I never shared it because I was ashamed of showing people a representation of the some of the dark things I’ve felt/dealt with in my life. I did it in 2017 in high school art class and it’s still my favorite piece I’ve done. It has so much meaning behind it, but I’ll give you the very basic synopsis :) Its represents having always felt like a wild, messy, loud person at heart who has been trapped behind this cage of trying to appease others. Trying to appear nice and neat when I’m not that. Well, I think I’m pretty nice, but definitely not neat. Our wonderful teacher had us write out some of our deepest memories and feelings and then we chose the colors that represented those. She had us go through our childhood drawings and use those as reference (hence the spooky faces drawn by 5 year old me). We used so many different techniques from painting blind folded to painting with random things we found around the room. Our teacher allowed me to explore a new side of my creativity through this project and I’ll be forever grateful for that experience. Shoutout to you Mrs McBride! I hope to continue this piece into a diptych to show how I’ve broken out of that cage over the last couple years. Shits not always easy but thank god I’ve got a canvas to turn to!