Jazzmin Gota
The first question that I am often asked about my art and design work is "do you have a portfolio?" and the second is "what medium do you use?" While I do have degree in fine arts, and years of experience in various mediums, I found that I stopped doing much of my own work after college. Instead, much of my creative energies have gone towards illustrating visions for other people. This became even more so when I started graduate school—between the additional academic workload and finding myself on the more logical side of my brain for technical writing, I haven't had or made time for creative breaks to work on my own art.
However, what I have noticed is that—while I would be hard pressed to find anything that my grandparents would have deemed real art at the moment—I've created many in between visual learning guides and added visual art elements to many of my academic assignments. Here is a collection of work produced between 2013 and 2022 that my art brain can't justify as fine art, but it is what has emerged from academia processed through an art/design lens. These are images that accompanied papers and presentations, or that were formatted while I committed concepts and quotes to memory.
At some point, I hope to get back to some semblance of the art world that I engaged with before making the switch to academic writing and research, but for now, this is what comes out of the collision of those two worlds as they reconcile and I reimagine what both could look like.
