Who am I?

In my interest of continuing a blog long term, I accept that it’s impossible for me to describe myself in this one post so infrequently I’ll revisit this practice. My constraints will be a maximum of 2 paragraphs to answer the question and I will try to be as holistic as I can.

Hello! My name is Brandon Maldonado. I’m an artist based in Carrollton Georgia with a mission to explore options in mediums and styles. I can normally be seen on campus running around and talking to people. I am a humanitarian at heart and love the arts as a way to engage and challenge thought, create a route for escapism, and engage with emotion. I visit ideas of identity sporadically as a way to engage my own.

I have spent a great deal of time over my journey as an art major trying to find out what message I am compelled to search and display to the world. I used to be so torn between what was aesthetically pleasing to others and what they wanted to see that I lost what it meant to do art for me. I left university for a year to find out for myself if I was pursuing classes for myself or if I was following it for the definition of happiness posed to me by my family. I have chosen to come back and now I feel my work is truly my own. I am an art major because it truly is something I want to get better at. In turn I am proud to say that my resources and my techniques are expressive and explorational which I consider to be an aesthetic worthy of expanding and honing in on, representational of how I as a human will always be. I acknowledge my thoughts, limitations, desires, beliefs and fears, all of which I will continue to imbue into my art.