Life is a Canvas. Throw some paint on it already.

If I had to guess, I’d say most people take this picture negatively. I say, there’s a reason I’m not one of those tags. There’s a reason that I made it and they didn’t.

If I had to guess, I’d say most people take this picture negatively. I say, there’s a reason I’m not one of those tags. There’s a reason that I made it and they didn’t.

(Source: nickthejam, via her-white-blank-pages)

THIS^

THIS^

mymidnightmockingbird asked: Wait, i'm confused.. lol.. why do you want to go to spanish fork??

that’s where the biggest celebration of holi in the western hemisphere is held.

mymidnightmockingbird asked: oh my gosh!! haha. you want to do holi??? lol.. sorry, random, but i saw your pictures and it was so weird because like 50 of us are getting together and doing holi in a couple of weeks and we're getting all those colors and playing holi soon :) lol.. once again, sorry.. that was very random!! haha

HECK YEA haha. I want to go to Spanish Fork in Utah when I’m older. It just looks like such a great time lol.

I almost never took Metals class. I was going to take Engineering Drawing instead. Yes, Engineering Drawing. I didn’t think I had time for an art class, or that I would like it. But as I stretched my body one spring day in ninth grade, reaching to hang artwork higher than my little freshman arms could reach in preparation for the Lakota East Art Show, my art teacher Mrs. Doerpers just wouldn’t give it a rest. She introduced me to a man named Jesse Dornan, the man who convinced me to make one of the best decisions of my life. He showed me some of the work his students were doing in Metals class. I was amazed. I wanted to do it, so I sent my counselor an email the next day requesting a class change.

The next year I made the ring you see at the top of the post. It may very well be the best thing I have ever accomplished. At least some people in New York thought so. When I traveled to New York City last May to accept my National Gold Medal in Jewelry, I saw some of the best art I have ever been exposed to. It was astounding.

And I sit here now, just having submitted the other two pieces you see above to this year’s Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, I’m reminded of the feeling I had when I finished that ring last year. I feel fantastic. I feel as if I’ve done something important. I’m not usually proud of the work I produce in art anything, but these last two pieces make me proud. The feeling I get when I create something that in my eyes at least is beautiful from my bare hands and some sheet metal is indescribable. I feel like an artist. I feel like a creator. 

Since the eighth grade, I’ve told people that I want to be an industrial designer when I graduate college. But in reality, there was nothing ever really that made me feel completely confident in that decision. What if I didn’t like it? What if I got bored? Or worse, what if I wasn’t any good? As these questions plagued my mind for the past three years, I felt distraught at times. Why couldn’t I be satisfied to get my degree in engineering, make a decent amount of money, and live a good life? 

Because I was made to create things. And metals class had made me more sure of that then ever before. I am meant to be an industrial designer. I don’t even know what exactly it entails at this point, but I know I want to do it. And I’m going to.

You just watch.