It's the End Where I Begin...

You could say high school is the end. After your senior year you are no longer required to go to school. But for some it’s the end and beginning. Some people figure out what they are meant to do in life, even if they don’t know what their specific job will be in the future.

            Before you say that I will probably change my mind several times before I figure out exactly what I want to do, let me assure you that I am well aware of this. There are so many possibilities in life and while I may see myself doing one thing, God can have me doing something else in the future that I can’t even dream of. (One of the infinite amount of reasons why He’s so great!) But for now I have a general idea of what I want to do. And by general, I really mean there are endless possibilities with this one…art.

Yep, as you could probably guess I love art and everything about it. There are some materials that I just do not have the patience to learn how to use (charcoal is the main one) but I also have my favorites: ebony pencil, ink, wax/encaustic, watercolors, acrylic, packaging tape, etc. I have to be honest though, by the end of a piece, I’m so ready to be done with it. I still have unfinished pieces of art from a year ago. Sad, I know. Maybe they will get finished one day.

My favorite kind of art, however…the #1 on my list of favorites is…photography. I LOVE photography. I can sit for hours looking at pictures by professional photographers. There is something about the colors and the emotions and the overall beauty that grabs my attention and steals my heart. I hope to be a professional photographer one day. If it takes my whole life, I will graduate with a masters in photography from the University of Georgia.

For me, art is a way of expressing myself. I’ve kept a diary/journal since 3^rd grade. I got my first one for my 9^th birthday and I’m about to finish my 3^rd, not including the one I kept when I went to France. Freshman year I started making visual journals and where my hand written journals left off, my visual journals picked up. I remember what each page is about, the emotions that were a part of that time, and it really is a few years of my life summed up in images with a few words to go along with it. One thing you must know is that what you read in my visual journal can be completely different from what it really means. I’ve found that I’m good with words when it comes to disguising what I’m feeling, whether good or bad. In a way, the pages in my visual journal are just as secret as the pages in my hand written journal. These are things I’ve kept to myself for 2 or 3 years and I think now is just as good of a time as any to share them. Besides, this is something I love to do and how am I supposed to share something I love if I don’t share the whole story?

This blog will mainly be about my visual journal, but at times I might add some pictures I’ve taken or art pieces I’ve done or just things I feel like sharing. Hope you enjoy! Feel free to leave comments or if you have questions, please ask!

God Bless!

Kalin