Artist Statement

I am a child of the Internet age. I had my first email by kindergarten. I was always sort of just given technology and allowed to figure it out for myself especially since my dad is a mostly self taught software programmer and former website engineer. I never had cable tv or video games but I always had a computer and the programs to make stuff with. Nowadays I occasionally make stuff with computers mainly in programs like Illustrator, Indesign, and sometimes Photoshop. I’ve spent far more time drawing monsters in Illustrator than any person really should. Most of my work tends to be light-hearted and fun. There are times when I find that people take art and media pieces way too seriously and try and find deeper meaning and bullshit like symbolism in them. Perhaps the artist just wanted to have fun and make art without trying to give it labels and pointless symbolism. I’d much rather do art for fun and for myself than take it to extreme in all seriousness.

I don’t even try and take myself seriously when it comes to art. I don’t even really consider myself an artist to be quite honest or even have any self confidence in my  artistic skills. I’m a double major in both Media Studies and Studio Art but I’m only that because I wanted to take a bunch of art classes and since I couldn’t minor in it, I figured I might as well major in it. I enjoy the many ways that art and the media so often intertwine and converge. I’m not even sure what sort of job I want after college but somewhere where media and art converge and intertwine sounds like a good place to start for me.

I’ve come to realize that right now with the current ever changing state of technology and media that I’d rather be a jack of all trades than spend my life with only one skill doing the same task over and over again. It’s getting harder and harder to know just one thing and not be expected to know a lot about a lot of things and that’s especially true right now in both the media production world as well as the art world. I'm not sure where I'll end up in a few years but that's okay with me.