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  Keep Looking Wooden dowels, wood flooring, paper butterflies from book pages, wood glue, wire, yellow and orange highlighters 15", 17", 12.5" Inspiration:                        My inspiration images for Keep Looking are based upon the 'cut out' method, and an  ara mitama. The 'cut out' method is where you find a page with text on it, wether its from a newspaper, a book, or a printed piece of paper, and you cut individual words or phrases from this page and use it to create a completely different meaning than the way it originally started. An ara mitama is a japanese creature from an anime series called Ayaka. These creatures represent anger, aggression, and other heated emotions. In the anime they make a big appearance and they must be fended off by the main protagonist. The creatures come from the people that visit the island, Ayaka. When tourists come to this island they bring with them t...

  Apongotto foam board, plaster, wooden dowels, patterned paper, mod-podge, acrylic paint 12.5", 13.5", 12.1" Inspiration:                      I was inspired by Pablo Picasso's collage work and wanted to take his 2D image and make it 3D with my own spin to it. I grew up looking at Picasso's work and was inspired at a young age. My mom brought back a Picasso book from the MET when her and my dad visited New York city one year and when she brought it back, all I wanted to do was observe his work even more closely. I find I have a lot of his inspiration driving my works, but especially in Apongotto.  Artist Statement:                           Apongotto. There's no rhyme or reason to the name, but in my creative process, this is what I came up with. I'm constantly working on my methods and how I think to come up with thes...