AP Art 2023-2024
My Ap portfolio follows themes of rumination, dissociation, and mourning. A large part of what defines this body of work was my habit to return to a piece, a place, a time, an emotion, and use any medium I needed to manifest the places i found myself stuck into image.
Turning Point
Acrylic paint, posca marker, watercolor
This is my personal favorite piece from the portfolio. Beforehand, I was in an altercation with my mother that resulted in me jumping out of her car and walking an hour home.
After this hike, along busy roads and through my neighborhood, I crawled through my bedroom window and immediately started painting. I was overcome with so much fear, sadness, and a deep feeling of rejection, I found myself returning to this piece multiple times throughout the semester to continue to add more and more to the piece. What is originally a scene of myself, standing nude in my bathroom, became a piece that captured the dissociation I was going through at this time of my life incredibly.
Silence
collage, posca marker, permanant marker
Silence means giving up your voice, your beliefs, your self. to live as a ghost, to haunt every room you inhabit. to the best of your ability, rise forward. people do want to be your friend. people are kind. You just have to be able to talk to them.
Dead House Mask, Jacket, and T-shirt
playing with fire!
Mixed media
An amazingly fun set of pieces. All chaotic, colorful, eyecatching I'd hope, that are built around covering the more sensitive core messages with a visually abrasive exterior.
Relapse
Acrylic paint on canvas
Relief is risky, but to my belief sometimes nessecary. Medicate as you see fit, but educate and prepare yourself for the risks of your choices.
Broken
Acrylic, Posca marker, collage, kingsart gel sticks
I started this piece around the same time I was first put onto ADHD meds. something wasn't quite right. In hindsight, I think it's a combination of events that threw me into this artblock, but the medication is what I feel broke my flow in creating art. the pills made me feel tight in the chest, and along with the energy drinks I was consuming lead me to really throw everything at the wall.