The Loop and The Paradox

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Rocket C.

• Artist Statement

  My inspiration for my pieces come from the many parallels that the American school system shares with the American prison system. Additionally, the way the prison system determines under-privileged people’s futures by tainting criminal records or pulling out whatever financial foundation they had built with lawyer and court fees. The feeling of being ”trapped” in an institution is common for both students and prisoners, in these pieces I illustrate supposed ex-felons using school property as living quarters. Once trapped in the institution of education, they then rode the pipeline to prison, ending up right back where it all may have gone wrong. Their financial hardships once again “trapping” them. The paradox of homelessness is unsolvable for the individual, it’s necessary that we all come together and make necessary changes to our society to save those at the mercy of the criminal justice system and laissez-faire economics.

• Creative Statement

  Creativity is the exercise of the excess built up energy one picks up throughout life. It is a release that leads to a representation of something, whether it be physical, metaphorical or abstract. Creativity can result in endless forms of media and expression.