XPI Student Showcase
Welcome to Xpress Plugged In, our new online gallery of student expressions. Please follow the submission instructions CAREFULLY. New work will be posted every Monday.
-- Nancy Green, editor of XPI
Selections for the Week of 2/21/2011
Spotlight on Yvenel Casseide, 12th grade
Howard W. Blake High School, Tampa
Artist Statement
--Yvenel Casseide
Most of my images are of people -- specific people. The images represent different types of people, different feelings and emotions, different self--views and connections. All of these things can be seen in the face, if one pays close attention (try it out).
"Rise." and "Om Nom Nom!" are images in which I look at the world in different and unreal ways. Part of being an artist is to be able to see the world on a different scale or spectrum; I have explored that part very literally. As an artist, I am driven by absurd and arrested notions and delusions that fuel my work.
Looking at the world weirdly for 18 years does that to you, I guess.
Giclee prints by Yvenel Casseide, 12th grade,
Howard W. Blake High School, Tampa
Boatted
Oh, Nom, Nom!
Ashley!
Rise
The Mellow Grey 1
The Mellow Grey 2
Crystal Blue