Cotton Candy

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Omar S.

• Artist Statement

  Do you ever look at a photo and pause in disbelief or look at a photo and think to yourself what is that I am looking at. If you’ve done both of those things before then you know it isn’t every day you stumble across an image like the one you have stumbled across right now. When I was taking this photo I put into consideration the time of the day it was, the aperture of the camera, the shutter speed of the camera, the weather, even the way the wind blew on my face. The colors of the photo pop in a way like no other. The sky looks like cotton candy mixed with sour patches. You’ve never seen anything like it. It is out of this world. This photo holds a lot of value it isn’t just a regular photo. You can see firsthand the poverty of Tijuana Mexico if you look at the bottom of the photo. There is a lot of light in the photo. Each individual light is an individual’s home where a family is breathing and alive. The lights in the photo pop like stars in the dark sky.

• Creative Statement

  Creativity is the ability to create items that inspire and inform others, often in aesthetically pleasing ways. Creativity is thinking outside of society's norm. It is being able to express oneself in different varieties of arts, painting, poetry, sculpture, style, fashion, etc.