Alivea Clark

I am Clark and I am in D-Lab in the Lab51 program. I believe in leaving pieces of yourself wherever you go, and I love to do this through gifting my art. This art is typically things like drawings and sewing projects but has additions that span all sorts of mediums. I think being good can never truly be defined since it is seen differently through every mind that has ever stopped and thought about it. To some it may be something like spending the day with someone you love. For someone else it could be a shared slice of an orange at a lunch table (the most shareable food in my opinion). It could be a kind word spoken to you just when you need it, rescuing a kitten from a tree, or scooping worms off the sidewalk after the rain has fallen. It may be the last sunny day of the season seemingly gifted from the heavens or giving yourself a small vote of confidence to get yourself through your day. In any of these cases the theme that I found was that whether intended or not we are better from having these things in our life. My artifact shows a bit of kindness to myself in the way that it’s creation made me smile for it’s duration while I got to imagine the lives of my image’s residents. This artifact relates to One Stone because One Stone is the place that allowed me to meet some wonderful people that lead me to my passion for drawing. I have left bits of myself by gifting these people in my life the art they have inspired me to make, especially in these last 10 weeks. I hope that possibly this drawing might inspire something in someone else, and then maybe they’ll find good things in their lives too.