Food for Thought
Eva Y.
Color Pencil, Markers
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My piece is a self portrait with a twist-- food! It shows who I am by presenting just how complicated and singular that I, as a person, can be. My hair, now turned into various meals I love, is actually a representation of the mix of cultures, experiences, and flavors that make me what I am. Just as food fuels us and gives us energy, these things feed into how I see myself. My work says a lot about my love for food, but I also hope it helps us realize that we all carry our stories, traditions, and influences on our heads, sometimes in messy and surprising ways. It is this very feeling-- one of joy and chaos-- that I try to put into this piece, to show that we’re all a mixture of what we’ve inherited and what we choose.
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Creativity is a deep form of self-expression. It goes beyond creation and is plainly a form of storytelling through personal symbolism. In my work, like the portrait where a part of me is food, creativity allows me to represent who I am through visual metaphors.
