I began this class wanting to create artworks that reflected the places we would study in the hopes that what I gleaned from the course would allow me to make work the illustrated my past summer abroad in Europe.
Sitting around the camp fire each week
listening to fantastical stories told by Tony
about far away (yet very close!) lands
with people who at first were just faces
and have now turned into friends
whose art I've seen grow
and evolve
and blossom.
The semester has been an inspiration.
I am now, at the end of the semester, seeing that creating art about a place and time is not all about replicating the facts about that place. While this is important, weaving in a part of my artistic style and experiences into these stories makes for art that is more meaningful to me and allows me to have a deeper and more personal connection to a place that I have never visited. Making art is not about replication or copying, but rather, creating ideas that undulate in and out of what I feels and what actually exists.
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