Artist Statement
This still life wasn't exactly set up for the picture. It one of my dad's set of bookshelves(he has 3 sets!) The books are in alphabetical order by author, thanks to my brother and I and it took a good chunk of summer. I set the camera up so the viewer could see different angles but still a large amount of the books. I would say this is important to me because first of all it takes up the whole wall in the living room and I have read almost all the graphic novels in the collection. Only about 30 of those 300 books are graphic novels.)
Artist Statement
The shoes put out in the garage are not all mine, but I would say about half of them are. For this picture I had to wait for both my parents to be at work so the whole garage was open. I chose the garage as the setting since it is where all our shoes are. This took a while to set up because I had a brilliant idea, in my opinion, to set up all the shoes so it spelled my name. The other two photos are side angles of the display. The portion of shoes that are mine are important to me because it shows how I've grown throughout the past 3 years and kind of the different needs for the specific days in my life.