Congratulations to Rebecca for being selected Art Academia’s January 2021 student of the month!
And now, a few words from our featured artist:
I’m most often inspired by the materials themselves and the movement or texture they create. It’s almost as if by making art I’m finding the material’s natural beauty. I always start off with an exploration of my materials, little tests so that I can see how they complement one another. More often than not that naturally spawns my project idea. After that I proceed to create multiple sketches, laying out how everything is made and what it’s made out of. After that comes general prep, creating the individual pieces that will eventually come together as a coherent piece. Of course it doesn’t always work out but even then I find that the pieces are easy to repurpose. Then depending on the project, the final step may be to color the whole thing, so that they don’t distract or look too different from one another.
Creativity is like a calling. A feeling deep within you that wishes to be expressed. And the act of creating art itself is that expression, an explanation that extends beyond words. But like a poem every draft isn’t perfect. Sometimes you’ll finish a piece and find it just doesn’t feel right. You don’t know why you are unsatisfied. But one day you’ll come back after you’ve created other pieces and you’ll realize exactly what was missing, because you’ll have found it somewhere else.