Which unique ideas and experiences do you want to use to inform your art?

I want to draw from my own personal memories and interests when conceptualizing my art. Topics such as liminal spaces, local folk religion and the reemerging Y2K trend are all possible spheres of influence that I can draw into. Personal experiences of self image, high school and life in general will also serve as a sort of foundation as I start planning out pieces.

How can you combine these ideas and experiences to create guiding questions for your sustained investigation?

Within my artwork, I want to be able to explore how the seemingly different and diverse ideas and memories above interconnect. The thin line between suffering and happiness. The parallel horrors and joys of high school. The spirituality that we sometimes spontaneously experience in pedestrian urban spaces. Analysing these intersections will help me create essential guiding questions.

What materials and processes do you want to use to develop your ideas?

I want to utilize my woodworking skills to create pieces. Moreover, I plan to use plaster of Paris to create life casts. I also want to try out materials and processes that I am not familiar with such as metallurgy and glass blowing.

How will you practice, experiment and revise your materials, processes and ideas?

Through trial and error. Art doesn’t become art instantaneously. Its a process and during that process, we practice, experiment and revise our ideas until they come into fruition.