My name is Grace.(Site is in the process of receiving some significant upgrades! Stay tuned).
For a long time, art has been a merely a hobby. Until recently, working creatively with my hands has manifested itself in my life as an escape from reality, rather than attempting to pursue artistry AS a reality. From my mother's example, corporate management offers stability, safety, and assurance that leisure can sometimes be indulged. From my father's example, artistry offers freedom of expression, and striving for aesthetic perfection and expertise. As a result, I've felt stuck in a tumultuous mental conflict between rationale decision and unrestrained creative pursuit. My parents' careers both hold a very similar truth, that hard work and time can produce favored results. As such, my artistry doesn't follow a stringent theme of lyricism or meaning. Rather, my work displays an earnest attempt to tastefully explore detail, complexity of design, and a certain visual depiction of "organized chaos." In complete truth, I don't know what I'm saying through my art, or what I even want to convey. Namely, I suffer from a lack of formal artistic convention. But what I do know is that my art is an attempt to explore craft, form, and media. It shows a passion for construction and includes repetition as a means of displaying beauty and reaching aesthetic pleasure. My goal is to further explore craft. The dedication of time spent on detail and repetition in order to produce a work is what I first consider in art that I admire, and is what I first attempt to capture in the art that I create. While my portfolio does explore different mediums, I am ambitious to delve into craft of even more unique, yet versatile, materials. I aim to adventure into true and traditional craftsmanship. |