A Winding Road
As a kid, my mom refused to get me a DSLR camera because according to her, “I go through phases like water,” so I settled for taking annual pictures of the sky and the shore with an iPod on summer vacation. I’m 21 years old now and I shoot street photography on my Canon Rebel.
Art came to me as snowball affect. I discovered I had a knack for drawing at “Bring your Daughter to Work Day” when I was 8 and didn't pick up a pencil again until a 10th grade art class because I was busy making clothes and doing performance art. The next year I found myself in International Baccalaureate HL Fine Art and I challenged myself to put down my pencil, eraser, and keep my fingers off of my work—I was a compulsive blender. I moved to pen & ink, started scumbling and fell in love with the texture. The next assignment I insisted on scribbling all over my water-color portrait. My teacher didn’t like the idea…until he saw the finished product. It won an award at the Philadelphia School District’s art show my senior year—I never got that one back, but I knew I couldn’t ever settle on just one media again.
After two years in the IB Fine Art curriculum and a photography program, I was suddenly an award winning, three time gallery featured artist and enrolling at Albright College to declare for an Interdisciplinary Major in Digital Studio Art.
My journey as an artist has taught me to embrace the winding road and soak up inspiration at every turn. As of this week, I’m digging Web Design and Digital Marketing but my eyes are set on a tattoo parlor with my name on it somewhere along the way.
I grow through phases,
Lemicha.