This painting is trying to show what it feels like to have a feeling of suffocation and feeling trapped within yourself. To show that I have the door and the windows blocked off with wood. That would be being “trapped”, having nowhere to go. The room doesn’t have much in it, it’s very empty and just has basic needs because, feeling like you are suffocating comes back to you feeling empty in a way. Like you keep coming back to the same things, nothing is changing, if anything getting worse.  

Love doesn’t need a diamond ring…

Substance is not greater than what you feel. Someone can to you and give you the whole world. That doesn’t mean he can give what you need and make you happy. You should be happy with someone who can only afford to give you his heart. This room represents a person is independent and free. She does whatever she wants and isn't afraid to express herself.

I am more than you expect.

All throughout my life, people have doubted me. I say I would want to do something, and they say that I could never do that. But I always end up proving them wrong. When they say that I can’t do it, I go out and do it. For example, I got a rubix cube, and everybody said I wouldn’t be able to do it. I can now complete it in under two minutes. This happens with most things I do, but I will never give up. I will always go out of my way to do what I love to do no matter what people say about me.

"Stories to Paint the Empty Canvas"

I recently have been involved in a  African American Storytelling.  They have told constantly that I need to work more on trying to be free and have fun.  Yet for the first weeks I could not do it at all because I always want it to be perfect.  For example they told me to try and create a story that would interesting.  Everybody’s story talked about unicorns and fantasy animals and mine was about a dog that couldn’t find it’s tail.    Until they finally said something that kind of clicked with my creative and fun side of me.  “You should think storytelling as a empty canvas and you are trying to paint a picture of what you are telling.”  Now I think that I have improved in making and telling storytelling.

In my drawing I tried to create a clear difference between the two sides of the room.  I tried to create a creative side that looked fun to symbolize the new me.  On the other side I tried to make it look as gray and boring as possible to symbolize the old me.  On the Boring side I put a bookshelf to show all the boring books with the sign of basic on the top of the book shelf.  I made the creative side have a bookshelf too but, the difference between the two is that there are only a few books.  I did this to show that this is new experience and I am just starting to gather my new creative ideas.

My room represents my 6 word memoir which is, “Losing isn’t an option, winning is.” My memoir means pretty much what it says because I don’t like losing, but I do like winning.  I hate losing, and when I do I get mad, so to prevent myself from getting mad I win, and that is the only option.  For example my hockey team won the championship last year, and I was so happy, but when we got to the next round which was nationals we lost. I was so mad, and losing was what made me mad. In my room I have a lot of trophies, which represent all the games and championships that I won. Also I have a lot of blankets that have trophies, softballs, basketballs, and one says 1st place. There is one more detail, and that is the picture frames on the back wall, which also represent me losing, and not winning because there is trophies and it says 1st place. This shows all the things I have won, and that is why losing isn't an option.

Spaceship sci fi planets  4098  meteor showers   tec

this drawing takes place in the future 4098 the guy is on a ship heading to a space station do to a colony  failure of infection of an unknown life on the planet that forced an evacuation of the planet as this guy is looking at his room  on a 8 year trip back to one of the main system stations  over his time on the ship he has seen some crazy things out of his widows over the past 5 years of his life on the ship now 17 years of age he thinks what his last few years of his life would have if the infection never happened.

My memoir is, A body of rhymes bleed imagination. This memoir resembles my love for poetry and my imagination. This room has curved objects inside of it. This represents how my imagination bends and curves in weird ways. The mirror on the wall represents reflection, when I look into the mirror, I see whatever my eyes and brain perceives. To others I may look different. The chandelier represents how creative I am. The chandelier is small but it is the most beautiful piece in the room because it brightens up the space. This shows how I think the little details are important and valued.