‘IF SKATEBOARDS

WERE BUGS’

SEPTEMBER 2021 — ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

Artist Statement

I've sought to bring you into an altered view of everyday entities. If skateboards were bugs, a nature photographer may capture a similar shot. The lavender and a bee are slightly blurred, this background is rendered almost watercolor-like. The skateboards are prominent and luminous in the sun set lighting to direct attention towards the insects, they appear clearer and read as photography. This merging of styles, both photo and paint-like qualities, reminds me of the merging of the two perspectives represented, the size of a skateboard and that of a bee. I worked to create a piece that illustrated a reality that couldn't exist in an attempt to trigger a child-like sense of wonder in you.