an Artist Statement based on this information
21-year-old student who is majoring in English, even though it is her second language. She was born in America but had to come back to the country when she was 15 and start a new life in a foreign place without her old friends, family, and the society she was living in. Here, she is faced with the challenge of learning a new language, and having to adjust to an environment that is completely unfamiliar to her. At the same time, she is also dealing with the emotional trauma of leaving her old life behind and having to start a new one. Even though she is now living in America, she still can’t let go of her old memories and this is the source of her poem writing. Her poems are based on her struggles adapting to a new country and trying to accept the new society, she doesn’t have anything published yet she is still working on her poems.
An artist or artistic statement tells of your beliefs, opinions and what your artistic work focuses on specifically. It can also include what you want to accomplish and the legacy you wish to build. It is WHY you write & HOW you write! Use others as mentors to create your own. Here are some examples…
for example:
“write about minorities within minorities. I was born here but have family from Korea and Argentina. When I was growing up, mainstream America always lumped me into the “Asian” category. But ironically enough, within the Korean community in Queens, I didn’t always feel that I belonged. In my fiction, I challenge our assumptions of the “monolithic minority.” I give voice to anyone who has felt that same loneliness; to anyone who has similarly occupied a culturally confused space. My first novel, Re Jane, is the story of a mixed-race Korean American orphan from Queens that uses Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre as a loose template to raise questions of identity and “homeland.” My second novel-in-progress, El Chino: A Novel in Four Movements, is about a boy named Juan Kim who falls in love with jazz, and the music becomes his freedom of expression during the backdrop of the Argentine Dirty War.”
