Artist: Junior

ARTIST STATEMENT

Why do you use the medium that you use?

I’m able to create what I want as I start and finish my piece

What role does art play in your life?

I’m self-taught, I learned to draw in prison. The art that I’m able to put into visualization takes my mind and emotions out of the prison I’m in. I mainly draw for loved ones, and that makes me happy knowing I can put a smile on someone's face by doing art.

What inspires you to create your art?

Excitement, happiness, I get this weird feeling every time I draw and it makes me want to create something new and then throughout the whole drawing I’m happy knowing that at the end of the piece it will make me smile.

I started this as just a past time but then my best friend started telling me about her love life and how she was confused and stuck between two men, her husband and a man she met. She was gambling with her marriage and her sanity.