daniloescribio : up on the web
My Instagram account for my art
Just as it is the name for my website & brand, Daniloescribio is also my username for my art account on Instagram :)
On @daniloescribio , viewers can get the latest updates on my art. Here is a photo dump of some of my favorite pieces.
To see more of my art, follow @daniloescribio on Instagram or click the link below to see more !
@daniloescribio : Artist Statement
“Dani lo escribio" translates to Dani wrote it in Spanish. Through my art, I hold value and passion for found objects, the influence music, film, and dance has on us, highly saturated / whimsical color schemes, collage-work, and themes of identity formation & declaration. I believe that art holds a great deal of power, to which viewing art or creating art can pave a way for us to tap into our emotions and express ourselves, in a way that can sometimes be hard to do verbally or written through words. I want to pursue a background in Art Therapy because I am both deeply passionate about art, as I am about psychology, leadership-work, and advocating for others in my community.
This passion and drive for art, and learning of the therapeutic outlets that can come from it, I take after my grandmother. Through my grandmother, I was first introduced to the intersection between art and mental-health awareness, as she is a current working art therapist and art educator herself, based in Pereira, Colombia. Medium-wise, I make a mix of 2D & 3D mixed media art, culminating drawings, collages, digital illustration, and photography in one. There is something to be said about taking everyday, seemingly ordinary objects, and making it into art, but also creating a world and a story around that art. When I make art, my brain is rapidly moving, flashing different images and sounds and stacking them on top of each other. When I have trouble articulating or navigating my thoughts and emotions, it feels like a collage in a way. In order to understand yourself and why you feel the way you do, I believe there is a process of taking what's negative apart, and processing, reconstructing it into something positive. In making art, I consider our everyday thoughts and actions, whether they are balanced or oppositional, and how they shape us and our livelihood. I find that there is so much fun, color, and bubbliness in the make-believe, and allocating space for your art and its imaginative world to be as weird and unique as possible. With adding trinkets and found objects to my work, I find a lot of inspiration from stories from artists and musicians, relating to making your own path, and constructing a world of your own. Themes in art that call out to me most include, maximalist accessorizing & trinketry, overlaps between reality and imagination, growing up and all things coming of age, and conveying different moods outside of the six main emotions we are often taught (happy, sad, angry, fear, surprise, disgust).
Art therapy and making art out of seemingly nothing, and out of a positive or negative experience, helps me in letting go of the need for something to be perfect or certain. It makes it easier to accept ideas or feelings for what they are, in both relation to art, and wanting to help others come into who they are. I appreciate and love making art that takes your eyes on a journey, in a million directions to notice different things, but also has you on a quest to find one singularity. I want to make art that honors the music, the arts, and the people that have shaped me or you, as a viewer, into who we are today.