There are so many things to write about for a free blog, how am I supposed to choose?! I was going to write about music, which I have written about before, but then I decided to write about something different... Recently I changed my idea for my concentration in AP. I was not getting anything done, and I was not inspired. My inspiration was basically emotions through nature. I love trees and flowers and how nature can be so beautiful at any given time, yet I came to realize this was not what I wanted to put into a portfolio, it was not right for me. I decided to change my concentration topic to focusing more on people - emotions through people. I want to show ways in how people express themselves and really just to show through my artwork how beautiful these emotions and feelings can be. For some reason I am fascinated with people - I don't care for science, not anything like biology or anatomy or anything - I just feel like there is something so beautiful about people. The way we interact, the way we move, even more simply how our hair falls into place, and how our eyes show so much more than we even mean for them to. I like how not only our faces show what we are feeling, but almost any part of our body can carry that feeling through in a photograph. I think that everyone is beautiful in some way, even though today in society being stick thin and looking a certain way is the only beauty. I do not agree with that, I think that sometimes you have to look a little harder for beauty, and we all know beauty is way more than the outer appearance. Everyone needs to know that they are beautiful in some way, and I am so excited to portray people through my artwork. I think a personality that is beautiful takes you so much further than looks.
"All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't."
— Marilyn Monroe
I'm excited to see where you go with this new direction for your portfolio. I think you have a great thought process and you're super talented too, so I'm so anxious to see your work and how you portray the emotion and beauty.
ReplyDeleteFor my concentration I am also doing portraits. that is my my passion for in photography. i love taking pictrues of people becasue a picture can say so much about them. I hope you enjoy this new direction of your portfolio. I think you will!
ReplyDeleteI think you'll do great at this concentration Emily. I know you'll find more about human interaction, and emotion when you look at people when you put them in your art.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that you changed your concentration!?!! but I think this was a really good choice because this really seems like something you would be good at and I can see you continuously getting inspired with this topic. I also think that if you are allowed to give your portfolio a name or title, that beautiful you. would be a really good one because its really simple in a very good way and Its really pretty too and it completely sums up the art that is going into it.:)
ReplyDeletebeautifully written artist statement.
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