INSTGRAM:@evelynfonsecaart EMAIL:[email protected] When did your interest in art begin?
Ever since I was little, my parents told me that I always picked up the crayons instead of the barbie dolls. I was always coloring in coloring books and doodling on printer paper. Where do you see yourself in the next five years? Hopefully, I’ll have graduated from college, somewhere I transferred to. And I’ll have a job in art and be totally independent, I wouldn't have to rely on anyone for anything. That’d be really cool. Is there a form of art that you prefer over the other? Like drawing and painting. Um. They both suck. Just kidding! [laughs] Drawing and painting, they’re really hard because they’re both very time-consuming and as you're doing it you just kind of want to chuck it. But I guess painting. What drove you to pursue art? Just the fact that it’s the only thing I want to do. I don’t want to do anything else, this is what I have to do, I guess. I don’t know how to explain it. It’s just that I have to do it, there’s nothing else that I’d want to be doing but that. Is your motivation self-driven or influenced by others? It’s a little bit of both. Because I look at other people’s art, artists that are better than me, and I’m like “Wow, I wanna be as good as them or even better one day.” I always see the flaws in my art so I want to be getting better, my art is never good enough for me so that’s what drives me, even though that sounds kind of sad but… [laughs] Were you ever questioned for making the career choices you made? If so, who questioned or even doubted you? Who supported you? A lot of my family questioned me, because my family is full of engineers and scientists so it was weird when I told them that I’m going to go to college for art, because they were like, “Why are you doing that? Go get a degree in something that’s gonna get you a lot of money.” But over time they understood, as they looked at what I was doing they thought, “Oh yeah, she kind of has potential.” So they supported me. Especially my mom, it took her a long time to support me but after she saw the work I did my senior year of high school she thought, “Oh, she can do something with this.” My brother he’s always been my number one fan, which is kind of cliché [laughs] but yeah. My brother, he’s awesome. Do you ever have trouble thinking of new ideas for pieces? If so, how do you generate the creativity to get out of that “artist’s block”? I always have trouble getting new ideas honestly, but it’s kind of like when you get a new idea when you're not even thinking about it. You’ll just be in a random place or watching a good movie or something, you're just like, “Oh, that’d be a really good thing to make.” And once you’re doing thumbnail sketches, you bounce off the ideas, you keep adding on to what you were originally sketching. And then before you know it you have so many ideas you wanna do and you're just like “Okay, which one do I do now?” Do you ever get nervous showing your work to others? I used to, but overcame it. I remember Miss D (her high school art instructor) was talking and said “If art’s never seen then it technically never existed,” so I thought that maybe people should see my art. But now I get pretty excited when people see my work, I wanna show people and see what they think and get feedback. Do any of your pieces represent certain phases of your life? Sure. In high school I did the whole “nature destroying humanity” thing. Right now I’m going through this weird surrealism phase, I’ve only created a couple pieces, there aren’t a lot. The eyes and the windows (she’s referring to an art piece), I think you might’ve seen one. Most out-of-the-ordinary piece you’ve thought about doing or created? [bursts out laughing] I’ve always wanted to make a hamster in freakin’ space or something on the rings of Saturn. Something super childish! Right now, do you ever doubt your decision to pursue art? Oh, all the time. All the time? Yeah, all the time. Even after making the decision of pursuing art, you think you're going to be happy like, “I’m going to be able to do what I love” but nobody ever tells you that after that comes self-debt, never being good enough and there’s always someone better in front of you. What if people don’t even like it? How am I going to make money and support myself? I don't wanna be a burden on my parents, they came to this country to give their children a better future. And I feel like I’m totally stepping all over that decision, when they came over here, by pursuing art. They obviously came here so that I could make a lot of money, so that I wouldn't struggle how they did. It’s super hard, because I feel like I should be doing something else that is gonna ensure that I make a lot of money so I can live up to what my parents wanted me to have when they came over here. But I can’t, I can’t not do what I like. I can’t wake up every single day and hate what I do. Sometimes it’s more about loving what you do and not the money, but at the same time I don’t want to disappoint them.
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