The five stages of grief

I am Jynee "Alexis" or "Nini" Alanis, and I am a 17 year old Highschool Senior at the Academies of South Mountain. This site here demonstrates my work for my Art Seal. I have been taking Mr. Kings Portfolio Digital arts and Animation for three years, and has been the main art class I have been taking for my four years of high school. I have always had a love for art since I was 8 years old. As getting older I had a dream of wanting to be an animator and maybe owning my own animation studio to produce my own cartoon and films. (Kind of trying to be the next Walt Disney) so taking a class like Mr. Kings was an absolute dream for me. One of the many things that being in Mr. Kings taught me was to not be afraid for being ambitious with your projects, along with how much trying new things will help improve your perspective on different forms of media and help your skills, and how art pieces don't have to be perfect. As learning these new skills helped me learn to not be so much of a perfectionist with my art pieces and how any art piece can be interpreted as different things as that is okay. As art is also in the eye of the beholder. 

My art piece is dealing with the five stages of grief. I chose doing an art piece based off grief as safe to say anyone seeing this art piece has either lost someone or something important to them, or hard changes in life that are making things difficult in life. Grief is a universal thing we can all relate to as it isn't something that can perfectly be put on paper, but as since we know of how the "5 stages of grief" I wanted to make a piece as someone who has lost many people and important items to me, and know others who have also experience grief, so I dedicate this art piece to them as I hope I was able to capture their grief experience in their art piece.

Alexis Alanis

The Five Stages of Grief

Medium: Adobe Photoshop

The Academies at South Mountain

I created this art piece to illustrate the 5 stages of Grief. With stage 1 denial, stage 2 Anger, stage 3 Bargaining, stage 4 Depression, stage 5 Acceptance. I went with this specific stages as reality is much more messier and yes other people grieve in different ways. But for me personally this is how I recall dealing with the Grief. This specific one i will use as an example, when losing one of my Aunts to suicide. It was a very emotional journey for me and all of my family equally. While accepting her passing then was awful, I have been to cope and successfully get through my grief.