A Daughter's Love
2024 Digital Collage 1121” x 1800” This piece is about my love and appreciation for my mother. Growing up she wasn't the best but she also wasn't the worst mother. She is one of a kind and she had her own of showing love that I hadn't realized when I was younger. Her love language was doing favors for us like doing my sister's hair in complicated ways by just seeing reference pictures, She could do the hardest-looking styles without having to watch a tutorial video. One of her favorite things to do was take pictures of my family, growing up she had to always take pictures of us if we looked stunning and she loved taking pictures of achievements like our preschool graduation. I would love posing for her to take my picture, but these past couple of years she has stopped trying to persuade me to pose for her. There were times when I would sometimes feel horrible because I didn't want her to take my photo and post it on her Facebook, but In my defense, she always posted unflattering pictures of me. In a world that is constantly changing she is one of the only things that are constant in my life. We don’t have that type of daughter-mother relationship where we hug each other and say “ I love you” to each other every day, but deep down I know that she loves me and she knows that I love her. One of the many reasons I love her is because she gave me my best friend, my sister, and because she gave me a happy childhood. |
Inappropriate
2024 Collage 13 in” x 9 1/2 in” My artwork is about how we as a society sexualize human bodies. To me, human bodies are just part of nature and normal. When God created Adam and Eve he didn’t put any clothes on them; they were just nude in the Garden of Eden. I think he created us to not be ashamed of our bodies and not to shame other’s bodies. But sadly as a society, we all decide that bodies are hot and sexy but not beautiful and unique like nature. We also decided that bodies should be covered up and not seen like how breastfeeding mothers should “cover themselves” while feeding their children only because there is a male in the room. Another example of this is if a woman's nipple is showing through their shirt they should cover it but when a man’s nipples are showing all of a sudden that this is normal. There shouldn’t be double standards especially when it comes to human anatomy. I am not saying that men’s bodies don’t get sexualized, I just wanted to talk mainly about women's bodies. |
Orange Skies
2024 Watercolor 10 1/2 in” x 16 in” You know the feeling of driving for so long that once the sun begins to set you look up and see a beautiful sunset and it gives you a sense of peace and pride for driving long enough to see this marvelous view. That was the feeling that I felt once I finally left them. I saw the rainbow after the storm. If they had told me that the mountains were blue and the sky was orange, I would have believed them. They would try to turn me against some people I never had a problem with. I followed them like a lost puppy, I was scared and still am of being alone. I knew if I left them I would go alone, and nobody would come with me. |