Personal statement 10

life is like peanut butter and jelly, smelly, sticky, sweet, and it stains your shirt.

Act like what you want to be and that is what you will become, assume an attitude of giving, and you will become a philanthropist, assume an attitude of investment and you will become an entrepreneur. I want to become both of those things, the sooner the better, nothing like starting now.


I am most pushed by my want to learn, I believe learning is never a waste, it difficult for me to think, borrowing more money for school, my current debt already seems so massive, I grew up in a small town and my family stretched money, grew our own vegetables, baked our own bread, canned, sewed. So it's hard for me to sit down and think about borrowing tens of thousands of dollars, in order to have any return you must make an investment and the first step towards becoming an entrepreneur. One thing I can say about my upbringing, I am used to work, doing lots of it and doing a good job the first time, if you are going to build a fence do it right the first time and you won't have to spend all afternoon chasing the goats over 10 acres of woodland. Weren't you at school?, and to that question the answer was honestly no, I didn't go to school, when I didn't really set food into a classroom until I took drivers ed. My first day of school came right after my freshman orientation to Cornish College of the Arts. I remember looking around the room and laughing to myself, I spent so much time outside in Tonasket WA everybody else looked pale, an introduction to what I would look after 4 years, inside Cornish College of the Arts. During my education at Cornish I learned many things, some of them I believe to be exceptionally personally useful, some however I have no idea where they will apply to my life. The most influential people on my life were Brian Kennedy in the design department and Joseph Brotherton who is a member of the board of trustees but I had the privilege of taking a class with, a class that requested the existence of. I spent many hours of my month in conversation with Brian over every fiber of the student existence, from class size, schedule, the direction of the classes, grading, Brian helped me keep a lighter attitude about it, he always gave the best advice, encouraging me to push myself to the limit artistically and personally. When I took Brothertons class I got the opportunity to meet a type of person I had never really gotten the chance to talk to a lawyer. The most interesting thing we talked about in his class was rhetoric, inflection, context, how the way you say things colors what you say. As it strongly relates to my style of art, portraying a feeling, I was fascinated by it. My personal goal is to surprise people, bring new thoughts into light, I was interested in the way that language can influence the way we respond to a situation.