©ashley dawn. January 2012.
it feels good to do things that are good for yourself-and make steps in your life that enable these things. here’s to a better ashley.
free from the constraints of the academic system called school until january 9th, 2012.
:)
©ashley dawn. fall 2011.
text reads as follows (without the scientific translations): “Identity. The paint? The Pen and Pencil? The Photograph? The digital? Where do we amount as artists in the frame? Taking what we see and changing the context for another. Why do we want everyone to perceive with their eyes what we see with ours? What medium (identity) do we put ourselves under? The paint? The Pen & Pencil? The photograph? The digital? Dump everything into your creations, because it’s not an identity, but rather an entity”
This was my final project for my digital arts class. It was an artist’s book that’s only requirement was to have found text in it. The found text for mine was having all of the text printed out on tracing paper and then scanning it.
This project taught me a lot about my personal struggle as an artist right now, and that is that I’m having a hard time distinguishing what my main medium is. I have a love for painting, drawing, photography, and digital arts. This project was to highlight all 4 of those parts of my artistic identity and to show this internal struggle in my artwork to try and differentiate between the 4 mediums, while trying to make all 4 into this inclusive entity. All I want to do most of the time is to take what I see and make someone else see it in a new context through art, & lately I’ve been stuck on how it is I want to put that view into that context in the best way possible. I’m passionate in all of the mediums, and I don’t want my identity to just be stuck in one medium, I want to be a part of all the mediums and use them accordingly.
©ashley dawn. 2011.
it’s supposed to rain all week but for some reason i just don’t mind. i’m entering such a good place in my life where i’m trying not to be so down about things.
life’s been really coming at me since the term started; i went from having everything i could ever want or ask for to having so many of those things taken away. but i’m trying soso hard to just fill in those voids with other things that make me so much happier.
my friends, my family, my photographs, my drawings, everything. it’s all coming together so amazingly, and i’m just so glad. i’ve never believed in the term, ‘things fall apart so better things fall together’, usually in my mind that just means false hope. but really, we all have so much to look forward to no matter what is taken away from us.
©ashley dawn. 2011.
I made a decision today that everything in my life is about to change. maybe not necessarily today, or even tomorrow, but subtly with time, my life will be all about what makes me happy. which is what it should be about already, but i’ve spent so much time fiddling around with other people’s viewpoints on me and i can’t do that to myself anymore. it’s time that i poured my life into my creations, the people around me (that is, the people that care about me), the landscape i’m in, my family, everything. never again will i settle for people that think less of me for any reason, i don’t have time for people that make me feel any less than myself, and any less than completely happy. and i don’t have time for activities or anything else that makes me think less of myself or makes me feel any less than completely happy.
i’ve made this change once before, it was hard. but after all the work i put into myself, i let it slip. i can’t let these things slip, i have to be happy on my own permanently & always.
here’s to finding all of that again.
