Too Expensive to Live or Die

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Alex S.

Digital

• Artist Statement

  This art piece is a digital art piece I made for my AP Art Class highlighting the feelings I have about living in the Bay Area. The cost of living here is expensive, and it had a negative impact on my mental health. It felt like everything cost too much to live, but the hospital and funeral costs made it too expensive to die. Both subjects are locking in a frozen waltz, dressed up in excess like court fools. The fool on the left represents how it’s too expensive to live, and the right represents how it’s too expensive to die.

• Creative Statement

  To me, creativity is the ability to put what’s in your mind on paper and have fun during the process of bringing what’s in your mind into something tangible.