Child Like Playfulness

As I am sitting writing my college essays I am thinking about how I have evolved as an artist and honestly, it is hard. Have I even evolved? I mean sure I got better with light and rendering, and I understand concepts about composition and form. Maybe my pieces got deeper but I have always drawn and painted, and now taken pictures, from my point of view. Which leads me to has my point of view changed? I mean literally yes, as I have grown, the world around me has shrunk and of course there are other things like I don't necessarily still see the shadows as monsters ( most of the time), or think that there is the potential for a fairy to fly into my room or santa to come down my chimney. But I do like to believe that I still look at the world as though it is still my playground. I like to see the things that are out there and look at them from every angle, like I am seeing them for the first time. Really study them. But recently I have been doing this more, I want to take it one step farther, I want to take the time not only to study the object but to try and see in it what a child would see. and with this blog post I am realizing that maybe I have been thing about these pieces as too broad. I have been thinking o landscapes with little cartoon ,or childlike drawings, or instillations with paint and giving you the childlike sense of playful ness with texture , freedom and movement. But maybe I should go smaller, take a lady bug for example, I should study the ladybug and get to know what it looks like from every angle and try and figure out the best light it can be in , and find the beauty in it, and than take that to the next level. The level I haven't quite figured out yet, the level of child likeness, what a child would see in that ladybug, or see that ladybug as. I think I just need to figure out what my inner child would see and take that and make THAT my artwork.