ToddP

My art piece is about loss of reality and isolation from the world. It is about being trapped somewhere you don’t want to be. It is about the lack of confidence because the bars are holding my confidence down. When I grow up I want to be happy, I want to have a good job that I am happy with and a wife and kids. Through this piece I am communicating that I don’t want to be stuck in an office all day and be isolated from the outside. I don’t want to be held down by the thoughts of money and what I want to buy but what I need. I want to be more confident later in life and get the job that I want and a wife that is truly loyal to me. I don’t want to have boundaries when I am older I want to be able to travel places I have always wanted to travel; I don’t want anything to hold me back.

My art piece consists of a photo of me holding some bars and a painting of some foliage in the background all of which has been illustrated. The foliage represents the environment outside of an office and a peaceful place to be. The bars represent a jail cell and being stuck in one place with boundaries. In the hooded sweatshirt is me with no face represents me being lost not knowing who I am. I want to have a clear path to my film career and the scribble is distorting that path. I want people to feel trapped when they look at my piece. I want people also to feel like they need to stop getting caught up in their jobs and get out and smell the fresh air once and a while. Most of all I want people to stop texting on their phones and listening to their mp3 players and thinking about the material things and just look at my picture.