82 Remix: “Life Creates Art”
Tatiana Scott-Anchietta
Professor Jillian Viveiros
ENG 1013.06
12 December 2022
Artist Statement: “Life Creates Art”
I chose my visual analysis paper to remix because it was my favorite writing assignment this semester. The original audience was the general public, who may have not known about the creator’s art, which includes music and painting. The new audience for the remix assignment is people who enjoy art every day but do not appreciate the work the artist puts into a piece.
This is a mixed-media piece that uses watercolor, pens, and markers. Each element represents a different aspect of a painful life experience. When looking at the background, it is dark and light reds dripping and splattering across the page. I did this by mixing red and black paint with water and putting it in a spray bottle, then spraying the paint onto the paper.
Red generally represents raw emotion, anger, blood, and passion. This background represents the pain that bleeds throughout our lives and our experiences. The scribbled black line represents the complexity of life and emotion, and the filled spaces in between represent the emotions that come with time. The experiences at the time seem to be too much to handle alone, but in the bigger picture, it is just a small portion of the story. This represents how all of your experiences are connected and affect the next experience. The little moments are the foundations for your next moments. These were created with pens and markers.
The eyes and abstract lines inside of some of the shapes created represent how the eye is the window to the soul and the soul holds pain and experience. The complexity of some eyes represents different experiences, such as happiness, sadness, and anger. The brighter more vibrant watercolor patterns around each shape created represent the beauty and wonder that follows pain and suffering. Representing that even though life is full of raw, difficult emotions if you can express them and reflect on them, you can create something extraordinary and vibrant.
As a society, we indulge in art every day from our TV shows, the billboards on the freeway, the music we play on the radio, to the street art we see while walking to the convenience store. We are surrounded by art, and we are obsessed with it. All we can talk about is a new vocalist’s song, the new episode of our favorite show, and how the packaging of our soda is interesting.
When it comes to the creator of this art, we often disrespect who they are and what they do. When someone tells us that they want to become an artist, we scoff and tell them they will never succeed and they will starve. When a creator does something to make a statement, we all scorn in judgment until that statement resonates. We as a society disrespect art and what follows it, we disrespect the artist and who they are. We tear down artists until they do what we want and when they do, we tear them down again. We as a society do not understand pain, we do not work for creativity, and we do not bleed for passion.
Artists do! Artists take the long, rugged path; artists put their pain and life into what they make and what they say. The reason a song is so good is because it’s real, it’s because it contains pain. The reason a movie has you on the edge of your seat is because the writer experienced firsthand what you were watching. The painting is captivating because the artist cried over the colors and put emotion into the brush strokes. Art is pain, art is suffering, and art is life and experience, yet we bully and beat down artists who feel intensely or express freely. We reap the benefits of what artists sow. This mixed media abstract piece represents the experiences in life that cause pain and raw emotion, and how complicated they can be, then leading to a beautiful, and captivating work of art. We are all works of art in our own painful life, but we have to learn to express our pain and use it to make a revelation, create love, and invoke inspiration. Astonishing art requires pain.
Life Creates Art
