self introduction & Susan Sontag

 

    Self Introduction

    

    Hey everyone, my name is Kevin and I'm a senior working on my BFA with a concentration in ceramics.  I enjoy creating art, whether that's painting, illustration or sculpture. I've been drawn to my creative side ever since I was in middle school and I found it easy to replicate objects onto paper since everything consist of shapes and angles. From there, I never gave up and decided I wanted to make a career out of something I enjoyed. 

    There are many artist that inspire me to create. I've recently stumbled upon two ceramic sculptors; Zoe Dufour and Rick Casali who both go in depths and explain the anatomy of the human figure and it's form. 

It's almost poetic justice that we break apart this medium which has come from the earth to mold it into something that we consider art. Yet, it'll be here far beyond us and we'll take it's place in the dirt. I guess that's another ideology that drew me to ceramic.

   I have many aspirations for the future. One is to have my own studio and create works that speak to me. I'm still learning and finding my signature as an artist. Another goal is to work with an art gallery to curate works of other artists. But above all, I find myself teaching the most creative minds of all - children. I was fortunate to teach 2 years at an elementary school and though it was stressful, it was also inspiring to understand the mind of children. 

Susan Sontag

On Photography

"Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood."

    Susan Sontag's insight of her idea that photographs are experienced captured is exactly spot on and she concluded this decades before social media was ever established. Instagram being the storehouse of sharing moments with loved ones and facebook rekindling relationships. We frame and package our ideal lives in these photos to present to others and share memories.

"To collect photographs is to collect the world."

    Sontag's quote says, collecting photograph is to collect the world, which is accurate. We capture memories all around the world. To take out your camera and snap a picture of a places we might never see again. Places we might never remember, but to have them in the palm of our hand gives us recollection of that moment that's passed.