Part 3/7 of artwork created for my Senior Exhibition, The Inspiration Project!

Coming to the end of my college experience has given me an unexpected sense of loss. As a child, I skipped from story to story, always coming up with better and more enticing ideas than the last. However, there was always a sense of regret with this. After all, I had spent so much time and effort on my discarded stories- and so whenever I abandoned one story for a new one, I naively promised myself that once I was done with my new project, I would return to finish the first. If you are a creator yourself- you know, that did not happen.

As I have reached the end of my college experience, these untold stories began to weigh on me. I felt I owed something to these stories which had been immensely important to my personal and creative development. In between working on my final projects, I began to think on the guilt I held for not sharing the stories of these characters that had become important to me. I realized that in some form, I considered these characters to be like people, like friends, and that subconsciously I viewed a permanent dismissal of these stories to be like death.
That was the birth of the idea for this exhibit. Accepting the fact that I am growing up, and that I will not finish these stories, however, perhaps I could let the characters tell their own stories. Maybe they will impact you the same they did me.

Perhaps through that impact, they will live on through the inspiration you take from this exhibit.