I’m Jesse, a freshman Fine Arts major here at Parsons.
The heat of candlelight, white mist exhaled on a cold morning, the smell of pine after rain, represents the three most important components of me (For explanations, see here). I remember driving in cars and doing landscape paintings in my head, and I love the feeling when I cannot stop my brain from thinking and to feel overwhelmed by thinking. Milan Kundera says, “There is no perfection only life,” in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, one of my favorite quotes in one of my favorite books, which I engraved on the back of my iPad. If “certainty” implies the perfection of life, then I see my life as full of uncertainties. Living in New York City makes me have the habit of counting from 1 to 100 in a loop while walking on the sometimes overwhelming streets, and makes me getting more and more comfortable with the “uncertainties” of life. I am sometimes anxious about what the future might be like, and who I am going to be. I asked my professor earlier in the first half of the first semester, how do I find my style? Now, at the end of my freshman year, I am still not certain about what “style” I belong to, yet I am certain about how I value the process of thinking in art making. Putting my thinking in the art I make and make art that is reflective for the viewers are what make me passionate.