Art has become more than just the forming of clay into creative shapes; I can express my emotions visually. When I am thinking of ideas for a new piece, I do not think about what others would like to see but rather what I want the viewer to know about me. These pieces were created throughout many years through the best and worst of times. From the Lost Boy expressing my sense of not knowing where exactly I belong to the chair which expresses my feeling of being trapped in a society that I cannot escape, my pieces tell the story of my short life in high school.

                  The Lost Boy is smooth and has no face to express the feeling of distance. During the times that he was created I felt to be in the background where I could not be seen and where I could hide. I felt lost in a world that was bigger than I could imagine. Just like a child, I was ignorant and thought I knew what was best, but all that happened was I turned dark and cold.

                  The series of teapots were created in a time where I found my faith and my life. During this time I felt my bottled self was finally being poured out. I left the shadows and emerged into a brighter place, a realm of love and happiness. These teapots all express my feeling of bliss and relaxation. I did not need to hide; I could just be with the people I love and drink some good ole fashion tea.

                  The wind-up muses express my emotions from time when I began to really find out who I am. I began to feel that I am no longer hiding but rather being held by boundaries that I cannot yet break through.  From being bound by this cage I felt like an animal. People could control me however they felt and I could not escape it. I wanted to break free of these chains into a place where I could roam free, hence the tree-like texture.

                  This wild nature no longer became a feeling; it became a part of me. The vines slowly grew around me, and I was inundated by the desire to escape. I realized though that the cage around me was only temporary and I just need to sit and wait. No matter how hard it is to wait, I can make this cage a desirable place. I allowed the vines to grow from me onto everything around me. I let everyone have a part of me and now I will just sit and wait.

                  Art is expression. These pieces tell my story. Art has been my only way to express myself throughout high school, and there is no better way to express myself.  

         “For me education is about empowerment and empowering the student to think, to be self-reliant, to be independent and to be responsible for their own art.” Harry Ally’s words illuminate an obvious fact about drawing. This is my task: the pursuit to convey emotion, to understanding movement, to celebrate life, to honor death, to capture light and darkness. This is what I desire, beyond anything else, to accomplish through this medium.

         When I began to brainstorm about my final product, I quickly realized that I wanted to do a series. I wanted the focus to be solely on humanity, the meaning of life, and instances that cannot be overlooked by the human heart, which would yield immense beauty. Some beauty goes unseen not because we ignore it, but because we physically render it to have value. My portfolio would consist of nothing, but the pursuit of resolution being manipulated in numerous ways. Also conveying the beauty of things seen and unseen.

            My first piece is entitled “Quixotic Impossibility,” which communicates the impulsive and often rashly unpredictable changes in the human personality. The feathers can either mask the beauty of a person’s soul or reveal it.

            The second piece in this series is entitled “Agoraphobia”. The meaning is derived from a type of anxiety disorder that causes you fear and often avoid places or situations. These situations in turn cause you to panic, and to feel trapped, helpless or embarrassed. My desire was to capture myself in a state of calm emotion and to display how well I mask this feeling of being trapped.  The umbrella protects me from the elements I am trying to avoid. To accomplish this, I added the skull to represent the future. This represents death; the inevitable event every human being can expect and none can escape.

“Feigned Negligence” is the representation of a society over-looking morality. The Skeleton dominates the composition as it overlooks society; portraying the end result of a society continuing in immoral behaviors. The raven acts as an on-looker’s feelings of repulsion towards the civilization below. Lastly, the hooks entail that society is baited on lies of evil presumptions.

         The “Charlatan” demonstrates the roll of myself as the character that is a person who falsely pretends to know or be something in order to deceive people.

 “Enrapture” is a printmaking piece. This meaning is for someone who is cast as an irresistible spell over him or her, to make them feel "charmed."  The candles represent the light and darkness. I wanted the girls to have a spellbound look. I also wanted to show the idea that the true rapture was that we do not live under spells, and there was no skull or bones left when Christ arose from the dead.

           The final piece found within this portfolio is “Beautiful Freedom.”

This is an instant in time, when we are all children of the King. I captured the idea that we are all created in the image of God and redeemed; or in this case, we are to come to Christ as little children, and let that echo to the world. We have a distorted view of what creation is and we are failing at our mission, if this is not our task.  Isaiah 40:6-8 says, “All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever”. My intention and vision for these six pieces and everything that I created is best summed up in the words of  Harry Ally, “Art is something that cannot be measured.”  My hope is there is a balance for the viewer to un-mask and be truthful and see redemption. 

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Trey Honeycutt is a sophomore and a business major. He is an Eagle Scout and with that, loves being in the outdoors; whether that be hiking, Enoing, fishing or throwing the Frisbee with friends. He also is very lighthearted and enjoys making jokes and making people laugh. He loves it when he can make someone’s day with something as small as a joke. He additionally enjoys meeting new people. People say that Trey has never really met a stranger because he loves taking the time to listen to people’s stories. He thinks it is amazing what you find out when you take the time to listen to what people have to say. Finally, Trey enjoys the art of photography and the power that it holds. He strongly believes in the saying by Aaron Siskind that says, “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”

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Our world is full of truly amazing images, and these images can be found all around us everywhere we go.  Everything, from the simplest thing like a rock to the grandest thing like the Grand Canyon, can be made into an amazing image, one that highlights the intricate designs, patterns, and colors of the object.  Unfortunately, for many of us, we just simply do not have the time to enjoy the artistry that can be found all around us, and we often overlook, underappreciate, and simply miss the art that can be found in all objects.  That is why I enjoy photography.  For me, photography is a way to capture those missed moments.  Also, the camera is a great tool that can be used to help us see everything around us in a new, different, and spectacular way. 

Our world is full of truly amazing images, and these images can be found all around us everywhere we go.  Everything, from the simplest thing like a rock to the grandest thing like the Grand Canyon, can be made into an amazing image, one that highlights the intricate designs, patterns, and colors of the object.  Unfortunately, for many of us, we just simply do not have the time to enjoy the artistry that can be found all around us, and we often overlook, underappreciate, and simply miss the art that can be found in all objects.  That is why I enjoy photography.  For me, photography is a way to capture those missed moments.  Also, the camera is a great tool that can be used to help us see everything around us in a new, different, and spectacular way. 

It can capture and preserve images that we would normally miss so that when we actually do have the time we can appreciate the amazing images around us.  In my photographs, I like to portray everyday things in a new light by using different photographic techniques to highlight the different aspects of the subject’s intricate shapes, patterns, and colors that may not be obvious to the human eye.  Many of my photographs are of simple things, things that can be found all around us, but, hopefully, my photographs show these simple things in a different way that highlights its true complexity and splendor.  Photography to me is a wonderful art form that really allows us to appreciate the things around us. 

It allows me to slow down just for a moment to look at things in a different way.  Hopefully, my photographs can inspire others to also look at things in a different way and allow them to be able to see the true artistry of God

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A Piece of Me:

Working on my art has always been my escape from reality; I am passionate about my work as it is one of my few chances to completely express myself. 

The pieces that we assembled for the Senior Portfolio really display the different stages and phases of my life.  A person can look at my pieces and easily see that some are very precise and perfectionistic - those were done while my whole life was in complete chaos and those art pieces were the only things that I had complete control of.  Some of my others are seem more carefree and organic.  Those spontaneous pieces were some that I did while I was feeling utterly blissful.  I was uncertain at times as I am precise and calculated by nature, but in the end, I was happy to try new things and branch out from my comfort zone. 

That is another role that art plays in my life – it provides an opportunity to branch out.  I have at least attempted practically every type of art that my school has to offer, and I have enjoyed learning something new from each medium.  I have really learned to appreciate learning through observation in my classes and through the various classes over the years I have become best friends with people I would have otherwise never known. 

My teacher has always encouraged us to pick a subject matter that we are passionate about and that we have a desire to create as they are the projects that we will completely dedicate ourselves to.  Horses are one of my passions and an incredibly large part of my life, as I think is evident from them being the subject matter for several of my pieces.  I love the majestic and calming nature of these animals, and I try to illustrate that through my works, but I know from personal experience that a horse is just as fragile as an unfired ceramic piece.

I hope that people can truly appreciate my work whenever they see it, and I hope that my pieces are ones that people have a hard time looking away from. Whenever people see my work I hope that they realize that they are looking at a piece of me.  I completely throw my heart into every piece that I work on, and I know the countless hours that I spent working on my pieces, and even more just thinking about and brainstorming ideas from new ones. 

I know that these pieces are works that I will be able to look back on and be proud of, because I understand the effort that I put into each and every step of each piece.  I understand the areas of my life that I was in maturing whenever I took on every project, and I can now appreciate the imperfections.  I was devastated after discovering the crack in my carousel horse, but now I have come to realize that when I was creating that piece, I believed that I myself was invincible, little did I know that a tiny problem on the inside would create such a tragic flaw.  And in taking on my chair, I did not realize just how large of a tasking I was getting myself into, but I also didn’t realize the impact it would make on my life.  I, with the help of an encouraging and impactful Bible teacher (friend), was able to realize as I spent all of the time outside in the quiet sanding on that chair, I was not only shaping my piece, but I was shaping my life.  In those peaceful, uninterrupted hours, I had so much time to do some self-reflecting, and as a result, I was able to make some changes in my life that led to my next art project being my most freeing and spontaneous piece yet.    

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While Perry attends school he also works with 12th Man Productions, which is located in the new Kyle Field. He works with the Texas A&M Athletics' award-winning 12th Man Productions handles the television production needs for Texas A&M athletics ranging from content for 12thMan.com, TV Shows, Videoboard presentations to the ESPN SEC Network productions.The group has taken home multiple awards over the years, including an SVG award in 2013 for the "Welcome to the SEC" series.

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“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” Dorothea Lange’s words show the most obvious fact about photography; however, how many photographers truly understand the task at hand? The task to capture something significant by freezing a moment in time- a task to capture a moment of true significance- to find beauty in a single moment that would otherwise fade without a word…This, our task: the pursuit of conveying emotion, understanding movement, celebrating life, honoring death, captivating light and feeling the darkness. This is what I desire, beyond anything else, to accomplish through this portfolio. 

 After some deliberation, thought, and guidance, I arrived at my answer, paint. My portfolio would consist of nothing but paint being manipulated in numerous ways, conveying, as desired, the beauty of things unseen. 

An instant in time, a flash of color that the human eye is kept from seeing simply because it is physically impossible for it to do so. I believe that as photographers this is our mission. To capture the ignored, or in this case, that which is not possible to be seen, and share that with the world. If this is not our task, we have a distorted view of what photography is and are failing at our mission. My intention and vision for this project and everything that I photograph is best summed up in the words of the one Diane Arbus, “I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them”.