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Talbott and her journey with photography

Camera shutters snapping a picture, capturing a single moment. Whether it’s candid, staged or edited, photos give people an opportunity to experience a point in time as if they saw it with their own eyes.

Bea Talbott is one of the artists who submitted their works to the Ladue senior art show. Many of the works submitted by others consist of drawings or paintings, but Talbott submitted photos.

Talbott has been creating art since she was a kid, whether it was drawing or taking photographs. Taking the messages she receives from moments in life, she displays them to share with others.

“Even though I like to draw and paint and do all that, I feel like my photography actually shows my vision and my voice a lot more than other media,” Talbott said.

One photo Talbott submitted is called “Locks”, in which she took inspiration from another artist named

Painting Max

Whether it’s visual or performative, art can be developed and altered to test boundaries. Art can be used as a creative outlet to let one express themselves.

Max Yang has been creating art ever since he was 5 years old. Whether that is drawing, painting or sculpting, Yang has been able to express his creative outlet through art. Visual art compels

Yang to keep creating by an expressive media.

Yang has taken three art classes at Ladue High School, one being AP Studio Art during his senior year. However Yang has found to enjoy painting the most because it allows him to make mistakes.

“I think mistakes add to the piece as you go over different forms of expression and allow a lot of expression,” Yang said.

For Yang’s AP Studio Art project, the theme was based on major decomposers. Yang wanted to bring light to what he says, these unsung heroes. His piece is called “Found” and was displayed in the senior show-

By Elena BOLLMAN managing editor

Jay Maisel. She was interested in the shape the object gave, as well as the compositional elements making the photo interesting and interpretive.

“I really was just trying to mimic [Maisel’s] style and he does a lot of street style photography and I liked the format of the picture,” Talbott said.

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“Decomposers kind of get a pretty bad reputation yet they do so much for the environment and for human society that they remain pretty much unseen or frowned upon so I wanted to illustrate the beautiful side of that,” Yang said.