Art is a passion I love now and since I was 8 years old. I love drawing stick figures, to following how to draw manga on pieces of print paper from the dollar store, and constructing a diorama of a room. I tend to create whatever comes to mind or when I get inspired from Pinterest.

 Drawing with graphite is the typical art form I work on. From time to time, I also paint with acrylics, creating a mixture of schemes with vibrant, solid, and dark colors. My work tends to be simplistic or detailed depending on the state of mind I am in.

 As I grew, I had issues with my self-image. I sought ways to decipher my muddled thoughts and feelings during those times. Art became my solution to my relief. This piece of art, Love FoolishME is a reflection of my feelings, and experience of how hard, confusing, and foolish it was and can be to love yourself, when you dislike-or worst of all -hate yourself.

 The hearts in the painting create a never-ending spiral, with the “spikes' ' being glitches, representing how it’s not a continuous consistent path to loving yourself. The individual is meant to be a distorted self-image of myself, dressed as a clown, sprouting a veil of flowers representing toxicity. The most prominent flower,  the blue iris,  represents my favorite flower, simply meaning hope. Some hardships I encountered producing this work were: procrastination, difficulty painting the face and eye (first time painting one,) and creating a flowing effect to the flowers. What got me through these problems was patience and listening to music. I hope that, by looking at my work,  some people will know that they are not alone in struggling to love themselves.