It Doesn’t Have to be Fine Art to be an Artwork

Six months ago I wouldn’t have considered this art, today I’m thrilled and filled with positive emotion and thank I’m creating again.

I wouldn’t have called this art six months ago, but I today. I’d put entirety too much pressure on myself to produce high quality, original art, and this isn’t it, but it’s so aesthetically pleasing to me I don’t care.

I took an approach to breaking though burn out. Make something. Make anything. I painted a rock with my friend, I went home and painted my nails, I bought a couple sets of paint markers and painted my own rocks, then I took stickers I bought off the internet and put them on a chair, and finally today I put stickers on a guitar case and called it art.

The fact that I’m already defending this as being art might be a red flag that I went to art school. :) my college education is in art, but when I went to grad school I was nearly forever ruined for making more art, but I’m taking back what was mine in strides and throwing caution to the wind. I’ve been vaguely calling my work now assemblage pieces because I’ve been finding things I like and would like to have in my world, mostly functional things, and decorating them or making them pleasing to myself.

I bought three sets of holographic, glow in the dark stickers from the internet and put them…