Noah P.

Digital Photoshop Image

I designed this piece to be a part of the Youth: Water is Everywhere exhibition at the David Brower center in Berkeley in May. I wanted to channel the exhibition's theme of global water issues while also incorporating my own thoughts and feelings about climate change. My goal was to make it a piece very open to interpretation but also one that can show in some sense how all the carbon and oil we have burned to fuel our societies has polluted our air and water and even ourselves. Then building on that to convey how that pollution is slowly creeping more and more into our lives and having a larger effect on us as we try to shut the gushing spigot we created. Those were the central ideas I attempted to build my piece around and I tried to shape the person and their posture and body language to this purpose. I also used color as another of my crucial tools to give the emotions and feelings I intended to the audience. I spent a lot of time going through many iterations until I found the colors I felt created the strongest effect. The initial prompt I used was crucial to finding inspiration to create this piece but I also used it as a sort of jumping off point to create my own interpretations and ideas to convey.
I interpret creativity fairly broadly. While it can mean art in the sense of what I have submitted it can also be many other forms of art or even things like thinking up new ways to solve a problem. Areas like design or even the sciences require creative thinking.

The Spigot