Identity: I Artist
Austin Paul Strother
I explain my journey to becoming an artist at Lake Washington Institute
of Technology. My journey goes from having little motivation to create
art to being able to draw around the expertise of the teachers at
LWTech. I explain the importance of self-care to giving positivity in life.
Today, I see myself as an artist due to the field of study I’m going
into. Art was never something I enjoyed doing. When my art material
didn’t look anything but the opposite of what I was going for, my
motivation was never there. However, art never was something I
couldn’t do, but something I didn’t want to do. But what got me started
drawing today? My thought process that goes on in my mind to develop
a picture of certain events pushes me forward to collaborate with the art
I see today. Today, I see myself as an artist because of the peace I
receive from the writing, the silence of the music playing, and the
imagination of thinking.
To me, I feel as if there needs to be peace, (not just from the
environment, but the peace that comes from the head). Growing up, I
never received the peace I wanted. I played a lot of sports growing up
and felt like I was looked upon on a pedestal. I didn’t know how to
control being looked upon and being myself, so I turned towards my
friends to help me along the way. I felt as if this never gave me the
opportunity to be original to what I wanted. I never found the pleasure of
arts and literature. However, today, I’ve begun finding peace inside