A figure in a yellow shirt stands in a limp posture with a bucket over their head against a stark, teal geometric background.
I was inspired to paint this piece after attending a career fair my college had hosted. As a painting major, there were not many companies looking for painters, despite being at a creative organization. I felt that attending an art college would bring me closer to finding stability within the art world. I left that day feeling helpless and ostracized by a system that I so badly wanted to be a part of.
This piece was created to express the awkwardness and frustration of feeling othered from the “normal” corporate lifestyle and how creative people are often destined to live differently than most. Creating can be both freeing and isolating.
The figure wears a bucket to conceal themselves and hide their shame. The green background alludes to green-tinted glass - a window that places the figures outside the corporate world. The teal color was inspired by actual window panes of an office that I saw on the streets in Savannah, GA, and the background was captured at the college fair where this feeling began.
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A figure in a yellow shirt stands in a limp posture with a bucket over their head against a stark, teal geometric background.
I was inspired to paint this piece after attending a career fair my college had hosted. As a painting major, there were not many companies looking for painters, despite being at a creative organization. I felt that attending an art college would bring me closer to finding stability within the art world. I left that day feeling helpless and ostracized by a system that I so badly wanted to be a part of.
This piece was created to express the awkwardness and frustration of feeling othered from the “normal” corporate lifestyle and how creative people are often destined to live differently than most. Creating can be both freeing and isolating.
The figure wears a bucket to conceal themselves and hide their shame. The green background alludes to green-tinted glass - a window that places the figures outside the corporate world. The teal color was inspired by actual window panes of an office that I saw on the streets in Savannah, GA, and the background was captured at the college fair where this feeling began.
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