2023 Winter Art Show

Abrianna Chojnacki

Art is an escape for me. My art allows me to go to another place, another time and be away from my life, even if it’s only for a short while. This semester I experimented more with what I wanted rather than what others did. "I wanted to express this... or I want to show that.” This is how I created my art this semester. I experimented with several different media such as: acrylic, watercolor, and ink. I did this to try and figure out which media best showcased my ideas. I ended up discovering that all of them helped show my ideas just in different ways. That is what I want. My wants turn into my ideas and my way to express those ideas come out in my art.

I still struggle with the idea of a ‘perfect work. The expectation of perfection constantly weighs on me even with my own ideas. Yet, through art, I’ve begun to let go of that expectation just a little bit more. Messy lines instead of clean lines, bold, and wild instead of neat and organized. The idea that I don’t have to make it perfect, it’s allowed to fail, it’s allowed to be messed up, has let me experiment more and focus more on my emotions and the message in the work. I’ve learned this semester that my art can be beautiful in its own way. Going forward, I want to show motion in my art. Motion is something that isn’t perfect; it’s unfinished but still beautiful and I want to show that going forward.
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