why i do this

Why I do this

To know why I do this is to know what started it, and it all started when my mother noticed my random doodles which at the time were to me nothing but a mess.  But around the time of early elementary school, when my mother was trying to force me to do things like gymnastics or dance in hopes I develop some sort of talent, that is when she notice the scribbles on my homework papers.  Form that moment it was like a light bulb went on in her head and I also think it was when she found out that I hated academics and that I wasn’t going to be any good at them because that’s when she really pushed the whole art thing. For instance, I remember when my mother forced me to do my first poster contest; I was in early elementary school like somewhere between first and third grade. The only thing I remember from the experience is that it was a poster contest for a local church concerning world peace and that my mother made me stay up until the early hours of the morning, and yes, I cried through the whole process and the only thing I got out of it was fifty dollars.

 After a few years, when we moved to Florida when I was ten, my mother signed me up for some private art lessons.  There were some that I liked while others not so much and it was then when I took a liking to the whole art thing. It was then that I figured out that I could take the skills that I know and use then with the stuff that I liked to make and from then the arts just grew on me.  Art kept me busy when my parents weren’t around or when they were too busy for me and when there was no body to hang out with and from there I found other things that interested me that I can base my art from.  When high school came around my mother made me take some summer classes and such at Ringling and this was also the time that I became obsessed with fashion and costuming and for a while that’s all I wanted to make art on.  My final art project in high school I do believe was a fairy costume made completely out of duck tape.

Then when it came to college all I wanted to do was go to a community college but apparently that wasn’t good enough for my parents so they of course pushed me to go to Ringling because they want to see me do something with my art.  It was then a few years ago here at Ringling that I became extremely interested in all things Japanese and its culture and that’s been all that I want to do since. Although I wish that I’ve gotten into it sooner.  Though I must say that although art was something that was first pushed on me I have chosen it as my career path above all other things because not only do I like it but because to me it’s all that I feel like I know of and that it feels like I need to do art.  That and it feels like I owe art because when I came to like art it was always there to save me from boredom, loneliness, frustration and such.  Now what I really want to do is just voice my opinion and show people what I like through art. Which has brought me to the thesis of voicing my opinion of Japanese culture.