Music has always found a way to inspire me in every aspect of my life. Whether its my style of writing, my state of mind, or my photography, the music I am listing to helps persuade what comes out. All of my life I have been exposed to different types of music and different kinds of people. I was raised in a very accepting environment and I believe that that has also played a huge roll in who I am today and what comes out of me.
I discovered my passion for photography while taking a black and white photo class as a sophomore in Arizona. My instructor, Robert Guignard, always found a way to incorporate music with our art. We were always sharing music as a class, and listening to different bands he had found during his travels. It was when Mr. Guignard gave us an image recreation project that I realized how much my photography was inspired by music other artists had made. The assignment allowed us to recreate music as a photograph. I’d chosen to recreate Bob Dylan’s 1963 album “Freewheelin’”.
I moved to Washington right before my senior year of high school. This decision was all my own, I convinced my parents that I needed the environment to grow. Moving around a lot and starting over is something that can always be found difficult. Having similar tastes in music can be a great way to meet new people. Since moving to Washington I have begun to write for my high school newspaper. I took journalism for the first time as a senior. I am reviewing shows and artists to students at my high school. While my first love is photography, my second and third are music and writing. Being able to write for the paper allows me to share what I love with other students I hope one day to do the same with my photography.
This scholarship could help me so much while I am attending The Art Institute of Seattle and have been juggling around the idea of how my life will be affected. Going to and paying for school will force me to cut out things like going to shows and buying CDs. While working and attending school full time, having a chance to discover new music will be hard. Music is what Inspires my life and art. I am worried of how much that will be affected.
To say I am solely inspired by one artist or band is absolutely absurd. My taste in everything changes from day-to0day, and my art shows that. The photographer who’s work I am probably most influenced by is Nan Goldin. The tone and mood of her photographs can be compared with mine. Nan Goldin has always said music is what drives her. She has Nick Cave lyrics accompanying her images in many of her published books. As far as musicians go, I find inspiration most in the band, The Arcade Fire. I began listening to them around the same time as when my art started getting most serious, and like photography my love for The Arcade Fire came almost accidental. I happened to stumble across their set in the hot California sun during a music festival in the Indio Valley desert. The energy The Arcade Fire possesses and their TONE can be seen on and off though out my portfolio.
Music has and always will inspire me. I continue to make different CDs and Play lists depending on the task at hand. I hope I will continue to be privileged to discover, have, and share music though out my time at The Art Institute.
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