Art Journal

My comfort art project that began early in high school.

I've always made a hobby of visual art. Collage has been one of my favorite mediums to do so for a long time. What started from some Pinterest inspiration quickly turned into over 300 mixed media art pieces. This was the first time I really saw myself as an artist, someone that can create something from nothing. So I started to collect little pieces of nothing: trash, flowers, packaging, letters, bandages, and so much more. These spreads remid me how strong my feelings are and how powerful it is to express them.

Project Gallery

a flat lay of a journal that appears coffee stained. A faint pencil outline of a butterfly is on the left and a blue grey and silver collage is on the right. Text in a light hand written cursive says: be gentle, my heart though strong can be broken.

a detail shot of a golden collage. It's made up of old carnival tickets, various candy wrappers and dried flowers. Text torn from a book reads "I break off a fragment to send to you.

a wild mess of paint scraped and layered densely on a journal page. letters cut out of paper read Life is Crazy

A red and orange and yellow and blue the collage is vibrant and youthful. There is hand written text that are lyrics to conan grey's little league song.

two pencil drawn hands on a journal spread. On the left the hand faces down and liquid drips from it. On the right the hand faces up the palm full of sharp red shards. Text between theme reads: all i have to give you is shards of my heart and a collection of my tears

A beige journal spread. on the right are four magazine cutouts of models that have their eyes and mouths missing. On the right is a found poem with dots of silver sharpies. It reads: the scrap the rag the little the bottomless chaos thrown down and broken overturned roughened an immense tumultuous façade strength unharnessed unknown but she is worthy multitudes.

a journal spread of pink and red ink lines. The whole right page is compiled of intricate fine lines. the right is a portrait made up of those tiny lines.

a journal spread with large bold cutout letters that say, I hear the silence and the ringing in my ears. On the bottom right is a giant green eye painted with acrylic paint