Rocio Ibarra

Everett Alvarez High School

Junior

During this year finally got back to an artistic environment feeling as if I regained life after living through the quarantine in the pandemic. I find myself getting deeper into figuring out who I am as I create projects in class and really put my thoughts to the project. However, I still find myself shying away from certain ideas as I go but slowly am embracing them.

For my art piece, I went for a representation of the start of unraveling myself and letting it all out. I detangle the sewn walls that hold me from expressing my true self. Strands that’s woven thick into the skin and getting tangled into my hands, I still pull apart, unraveling myself and letting my true self bloom. And with the variety of flowers representing a spring-like theme

Despite the figure is not a replica of myself, I enjoy creating figures with unrealistic features such as purple skin. It is my form of letting myself truly get lost in my mind and out of reality. But out of all of any art projects that I have done I have never created something that represents me. It is both scary, but as I say this piece represents a form of me letting go and growing out of a comfort zone. From the beginning, I was very indecisive until that led me to create a form and a way of me just letting go of what was holding me back. It is not easy which is why I describe it as strings getting tangled or getting stuck in the process. I love art for how we all have our own perspective and if anyone can feel some connection to this piece it makes me glad that others can see a sort of meaning to it.