Levi Dominguez
Artist Statement
Aye! I’m Levi, and I like instilling photos into most of my work along with other graphic elements. My methods usually include having some music for inspiration and trying to make a narrative in my head of what it makes me feel and how I would see it in a picture. I find myself constantly visualizing frames from my surroundings, taking note of the details, and connecting with the moment in a daydream type of way.
I became involved in the arts through observing other creators, taking an interest in looking deeper than just the surface, going behind the scenes, at the process, and the idea. After consuming media I would follow it by watching countless interviews of people about what and how they were inspired and the meaning behind the work, and tutorials on how something was made. To see it evolve into the product we see. Looking back at my own past from my peers, I believe I was and am influenced a lot by my siblings and the cultures that surrounded me as a child. I feel that it started from those rock band posters on my sister’s apartment bedroom wall, the bumper stickers on her corolla from the concerts she would go to. The rock music scene she followed. All the magazines, books, and album covers I would see when we would visit at her job at Barnes & Noble. To this day music is where I find most of my inspiration since I can let my imagination run and try to make images from what is being said. Being born in the late 90’s and trying to find that nostalgia of what once was. The birth of the internet, computer games, television ads that became engraved in my head. Seeing how you paid attention to detail as a child and everything that surrounded you, though you knew it or not planted a small seed in you that you just had to wait to see it flourish. I started my college career in the wrong major, after watching one of my best friends working on his projects for his graphic design classes after switching his own major. I came to the decision that engineering wasn’t what I really wanted to do and made the change to Graphic design. Everything from my past feels like small pieces that started to come together after a little while, and I still ended up where I needed to be.
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