“We decided that we wanted to add beauty to our campus. It’s for painting class. It’s Lotería cards.”
“A couple years ago [I’ve been doing painting] because I ran out of hobbies. I went to a painting class a couple of years ago and I decided I liked it. So I stayed in a painting class. I also took drawing last year and I wanted a different teacher. I think art means that there’s a way to express what you can’t really do so in words sometimes. I feel like the phrase ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ is actually really true because you can express emotions through visuals instead of comprehension in your head because everyone has a different opinion. When you show art, there are certain ways to take it, so I think it’s a way to express stuff you couldn’t really do so.”
-Trinity Paw (12) [left]
“[I’ve been painting] all my life. This is my first year taking painting as a class, but I’ve always been into painting. Some kind of art has always been revolving around my life. To me art is in all forms. I’ve done dancing, music, instrumentally, and obviously the most common perceived form of art physically. To me it’s a way of escaping, which sounds very cliqué, but you can do so much with it and sometimes just the act of creating. I like the quote, ‘art is supposed to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.’ I really like that because from art, sometimes it doesn’t have to mean anything but other times when there is a feeling behind it, it’s just nice to give somebody a different feeling. Even if it wasn’t the intended notion.”
– Valerie Lam (11) [right]
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Interviewers: Maansi Maskai and Vivian Tsang
Photographer: Vivian Tsang
