Artists Who Inspire Me

N.C. Winters works and lives in San Diego, California. His drawings and paintings often explore the subconscious as a "method of creation" and "subject matter." He usually works with ink. I like his works because of the fantasy and surrealistic qualities to them. His subjects are both beautiful and terrifying. I also like his incorporation of nature elements.

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Kate Robert is a ceramic artist who explore time and its role in decay and memories in nature. She uses materials, often unfired clay, to explore fleeting and ephemeral moments. Unfired clay is fragile and delicate in its nature. It can be broken and destorted with time, people, and water.

I was inspired to create a ceramic piece that works with unfired clay. I connected it to plastic pollution in our oceans and its detrimental effects on the fragile ecosystem.

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Odilon Redon is a Symbolist painter and printmaker who was born in Bordeaux, France. His works explore dreams, fantasy, and imagination. He first worked in black and white during the first half of his career, but eventually moved onto a move colorful palette by using pastels and oils.

I am fascinated both with his use of colors and his more terrifying subject matter which includes the disembodied head and his monsters: hybrid human-plant or human-animal creatures.

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I am drawn to the pictures by Jess T. Dugan, specifically To Survive on This Shores series. In a series of images and text that tells the subject's stories, Dugan presented LGBT among the elderly population. It was great to represent them because they are often forgotten or not presented in the LGBT community. She gives them visuality and representation to show their narratives, beliefs and experiences. I was inspired to create my own series of images and interviews to represent the narratives of Filipino Immigrants.

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