Natalie is a very emotional artist. Her artwork is strongly motivated by emotions. Anything from stress, anxiety, depression, anger, or joy. The artist is the most motivated when she has a rush of emotions. Her more recent art has focused on the feelings of stress and anxiety due to her recent change in environment. The emotions added to her art are unintentional but still show through and express how she feels in the moment. She shows the emotions through textures, colors, and surrealism. Not all of her work is surrealistic, but the ones that are have the most emotions brought into it.

Artist Statement

Creative Practices

These are the original pieces I created to replicate my item.

Photo Project

I took these pictures to show that flowers don't need to be considered naturally beautiful. When most people think about flowers, they think they look pretty or they smell nice, but they can have more meaning behind them. Flowers, as a living item will die at some point, and some people see the beauty in both the live and dead flowers. Most people however, would throw away flowers once they start to die because they are considered "worthless" to them. Using fake flowers in this project, I wanted to show a way where flowers that seem alive can be considered both beautiful and repulsive at the same time. These pictures can have people understand the beauty in both life and death.

This is the video I created to show my item. I wanted to show how it looks, the texture, colors, and materials in the item.

Performance Piece