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I was Blind: A Junior Experimental Project by Juan Nava (2013)

In my experimental art, I tried to communicate the feelings of anxiety that I get from the transition from child to adult. As I go into my senior year I feel unsure about the future and what I want to do in life, and I see this in a lot of people. I chose this as my theme because I think everybody has felt anxiety about becoming an adult at some point in their life.

My art piece originally was a drawing I did with pencil and paper. There are four parts to the picture: the words on the left, the arm with a face, the city, and a circle made out of a face with a bandana over the eyes. I tried to make the words, city, and arm all converge into a single point, the circle in the bottom left hand corner. This is to emphasize how all of those things have an effect on me, which is represented by the circle/face. The Words on the Left say ''I dont think its very nice to walk around''. The rest of the phrase is ''my head all night you'', but that wasn’t a part of the original drawing. The phrase represents how anxiety won’t get out of my head and how anxiety is almost a person harassing me. The arm represents my actions and how they have an affect on me. The face is facing away from the audience to show that I try to run away from my problems, and this is emphasized by the propeller near my head and the engine for the propeller which says ''loop'' because I constantly do the same things to avoid my problems. The City on the bottom represents society, but the Toaster is the only thing standing up the right away because I rather avoid society and ''burn it down'' which is what I wrote on the toaster. Lastly the face and lips in a circle formation represents me. I put a Bandana over my eyes to show that I rather not look at reality and then the bandana looks almost infected and alien to show how distorted reality can be sometimes.
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