KEIRY CALERO
It took me twenty eight years and a global pandemic to make me realize that art is something I wanted to pursue, not just admire. The world stopped and I had the privilege to simply explore and play with different mediums and tools. That is when I took a plunge, that is when I fell in love with creating art and surrounding myself with artists– Knowing that this is a world I actually want to partake in, not just view from afar.
It started with acrylic paint and pallet knives, considering painting is a medium I’ve already entangled myself with from time to time. Yet I’ve always gravitated towards geometrics and 3D forms, having once attempted to pursue a career in architecture, being drawn towards the model building and design— but not the computer renderings.
As a requirement for my previous degree of choice ‘Art Therapy’, I took a course in Ceramics. That is when my gears changed once again, finding a world where many of my interests collided and I decided to pursue a BFA in Ceramics. I am interested in continuing to explore the theme of identity, the human form and geometrics mainly with clay sculptures but also with other mediums, such as painting and the use of metals and wood.
The following is a selection of five artists who inspire me:
O S WA L D O G U A Y A S A M I N
“The most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads -- as an anthology of images.”
As an avid traveler I’ve recorded many of my memories via photographs- From Portugal to Ecuador, to Utah. I can look at a photograph and be brought back to a precise moment in my travels, in my journey. As an avid learner, I can look up a photograph and be brought back to a moment in time that I have never lived through, but I’d like to experience in one manner or another. Photographs also provide us with an opportunity to connect with your peers by being able to share a similar or different experience through the same photograph.
“The subsequent industrialization of camera technology only carried out a promise inherent in photography from its very beginning: to democratize all experiences by translating them into images”
The evolution of the camera has made this particular medium accessible to the masses, giving the public fair and equal access to photography. What once was a camera obscura is now a camera in one's pocket that doubles as a telephone and a computer. One does not need to be a fine artist nor "educated" in the field to be able to create or document a controversial event in time or a memory; one can simply take the phone out of one's pocket and after a couple of taps, an image is now recorded and one is able to share it, or keep it to one's self.
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