Luisa Trejo

Hello!

I am Luisa, I've been in Art Quest for 4 years. This year I am in AP Studio Art.

My Portfolio is focusing on my persosnal journey of accepting and facing my vulnerabliity.

The biggest questions I asked myself were how do I want to feel? How can I think clearly and when am I able to be free? These were all related to my emotional well-being. At my most vulnerable I am a mess, I distance myself and most of all I don’t know how to express myself in a way that benefits me to grow as a person. So I decided to focus on myself when I cry, I wanted to show myself at my most vulnerable so I can learn how to be in touch with myself. What do I feel? How do I really feel? These questions connect with: How can I show my feelings? It is difficult to visually demonstrate feelings, especially if they are very complicated, and when doing so I found that facial expressions were not the only thing to help express these feelings. I played with movement and color and other aspects to compose a visual feeling. This later turned into questioning how can I be more in touch with myself? Where do I feel the safest and calm? Where do I go to clear my mind? Where can I be most vulnerable? I found out that I am my most true self in nature and surrounded by nature. It is my comfort zone, I can be vulnerable and I am inspired to be free. This led my S.I to branch out in discovering and being able to process emotional vulnerability in nature and with the help of being in this space.



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Gentle Nurture

My most last ultimate branch is explaining how I cope with being emotionally vulnerable. I like to surround myself with nature, its serenity, and the ability to be still. This piece is about being deeply grounded with nature to help me heal and emotionally release healthily.


Size: 19"X16" inches

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Cloudy Comfort

This particular piece focuses on the very dainty-more calm cries that make me feel a bit more fragile. To enhance that feeling I made the colors very soft and all of this is on a thrifted blanket. I wanted to add the blanket to make it look very comfortable and plushy, basically soft. I have always seen crying as something more feminine (as taught in my family), which of course is not true. Yet, that is how I choose to visually represent it. The words "sleep" and "rest" are sewed to further intensify that needed comfort.

Size: 36"X 52" inches

This year I created many self-portraits!

5"x8" inches

12"X12"inches

11"X11" inches

12"X14" inches

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Collage Diptych

Collage #1- In My Head

This collage is a feeling that I express whenever I cry, it is a feeling that interprets everything I a very chaotic and messy way. Yet the small words and phrases across the collage are tiny sparks of positivity in a sea of negative feelings.

7"X10"inches

Collage #2- Winding Down

This collage is about feeling the opposite of the first collage. This is getting into a calmer state after experiencing and getting caught up in an intense emotional wave.

7"X10"inches