Description
This qualitative analysis intends to answer: how do I, as an artist, use paint for my development and healing? As a contemporary portrait artist, I seek to capture the character and essence of my subjects. My paintings encourage audiences to refer to their feelings and personal interpretations. I've always been a very imaginative individual, constantly looking to create things from what inspires me and looking for the fulfillment of overcoming challenges in the process of getting to my desired result. Through an abstract style, I address a wide variety of subjects in a multi-layer manner and engage the audience in a fashion that is often tactile; by exploring the complexity and origin of the subject through retakes and modifications. I attempt to enhance the viewer's interaction with the creator by reflecting on feelings and analyzing the duality that arises through the paintings' various interpretations. My work directly responds to a self-analyzing and therapeutic conversation between myself, the artist, and the canvas. I use this artistic process as a way to evaluate and rewrite the relationships I have with these individuals, all of whom have been a large part of my life and helped shape my identity. I use these portraits to analyze the changing dynamics of these relationships through my transition into sobriety.
