CHENTELLE DE LA TORRE

My work can feel disconnected from the outside world as the scope of my work is very personal. I am never trying to make some grand statement about the ways of the world or a large-scale commentary on current affairs. Instead, the work I make is very much about myself or those around me and the process of creation. I often use art as a means of reflection and exploration of my own identity, and over time as that is changing, it is put into what I create. When creating around the people I care for, my perception of them feeds into and colors the product. My biases and personal feelings about them are carried along with it. I have not found one medium in particular to focus in on, so the medium of any given piece itself often decides the subject of the work. But as I explore the medium, the pattern continues. What I hope to get across to the viewers is this sense of interest and connection in their life as I share these bits of my own small life. We are now part of each other’s lived experience no matter how small.

Brainmap,