PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

     I've been doing art and writing my entire life. I remember before the age of five, indulging in such primative medias as Playdoh, finger paints, and crayons. I remember as early as second grade writing short stories for extra credit in school. I've done art and writing my entire elementary school carreer, and coming into high school I realized that these were my passions. I started taking art courses in high school sophomore year. I would read heavily, specifically philosophy by such writers as Sartre, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard. I would analyze and study every ounce of my existing life.

     Up until that point I had been keeping my journals since the beginning of 9th grade, and still do to this day. I fill them with my own poetry and philosophical ideas. Through these I was able to think for myself and find my own direction. I studied artists and writers of the bizarre, such names as Pollock, Dali, Eischer, Seuss, Kafka, and Poe. In the summer preceeding Junior year I completed my first full book, containing 110 pages of original poetry, entitled, "Decay." Through my own personal morals I chose not to publish it, and to keep its viewing to a mere few.

     I found myself drawing, insatiably, the oddest surreal images, and I loved them. Entering my junior year, my skills progressed when I started drawing the human figure. I adored the look of the rough gesture drawing and incorporated it in larger pieces quite often. Throughout my years I fell into deep depression and my art became much darker and gothic. This path led me into a world of endless possibilities, and I found my own level of artistic expression to be my own concievable idea of Infinite.

     Now, as I come to the end of my Senior year, I find myself in a harmonious balance between art and writing. I am able to incorporate poetry with my pieces creatively. I recently finished writing a second book, a collection of short stories and poetry entitled, "Giraffes & Geraniums." Throuh this progress I found that harmony bloom. I find my full objectives as an artist to be to, ideally, fulfill every artistic impulse. I wish to have a carreer as an artist. I wish to have enough financial security to make and do anything I want, and to know I'll be alright. I wish to "sink my spade into the soils of my mind, and come out the other side," as a higher being.