"I'll Still be Painting"
Link: https://youtu.be/j-uZWXr3wUQ
I was inspired to make this piece after re-watching Howl’s Moving Castle. This artwork is an oath to myself to always be an artist, whether I’m 19 years old or 91 years old. After all, there’s something beautiful and powerful about art for all ages, not only functioning physiologically to improve neurologic mechanisms such as shape recognition, motion perception, sensory-motor integration, abstraction, and eye-hand coordination, but it also guiding identity formation. It also allows us to express our inner thoughts, our emotions, our feelings and values, from facing our fears and insecurities, to capturing moments of love and happiness, to exploring ourselves and the world around us. The act of creating art is a form of communicating, whether it’s to an audience or the creator him/herself. Even when I grow old and lose my physical capabilities, I hope to retain a youthful mind and a spirit of an artist, just as Sophie did in Howl’s Moving Castle.