First Teacher

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Renika G.

• Artist Statement

  Dedicated to my first ever art teacher, my father.

  My father, who never had the chance to learn piano as a child, but provided me with the opportunity and taught me my first notes on the instrument.

  This piece portrays the connection between a child, her father, and music. Made almost exclusively with crayons, I hoped to capture the beautiful, rich hue of the instrument through the layering of individual colors. Though I didn’t start playing piano on the brown baby grand piano we have now (rather on a black electric keyboard from which we kept the black piano bench), I wanted to incorporate parts of both the past and present into this image as music is still something we bond over today.

• Creative Statement

  Creativity is a way of expressing emotion without any barriers.