My pretty new picture

I took a new photo of this piece. Its really nice!

General Artist Statement

~Explore everything around you and you might find a truth about yourself.

My whole life I have asked myself many variations of the same question: who am I? As an aspiring teacher and perpetual student, I have made it my goal to discover an answer to this question through the exploration of various art mediums, techniques, and imagery. I refuse to hold back when working with a concept or constrain myself with a certain material. Because of this I have worked in 2D mediums: such as painting, photography, pen and ink, etc., 3D mediums: such as metal, textiles, wood, etc., time-based mediums: such as performance, sound, video, etc., and several other mediums. I allow myself to explore all the ideas that come to me and stay open to the inspiration that comes from my environment, my peers, and the history of art. My work gives a hint at who I am and who I will become as I am ever changing, always growing and constantly finding new answers to the question of who I am. I believe that through a lifetime of exploring every art form, method, and material, I will achieve a deep and extraordinary understanding of who I am.

~SK Hampton

Color!

I have started to add color to the pages of the travel journal!

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Old Artist Statement

Artist Statement

As a practicing art educator and art historian, I have begun to focus my attention on Mesoamerican art and education, specifically within the Maya and Mexica cultures. Through this study, I have found inspiration and a means of expression in Maya imagery and form which appeals and functions as a creative outlet in my visual art. My recent work has centered on accepting Maya imagery and symbolism as my own tool for expression and molding these tools with my own unique character and style. Through accepting these elements of Maya expression, I have been able to explore new and more personal concepts in my work.

It is with the birth of The Boston Codex that I have found the means of culminating the elements of Maya imagery, my character and style, and personal theme into a visual project massive in scale. A compendium of the personalities of the people in my life, The Boston Codex is quickly becoming an outlet of relationship expression that answers and asks questions in an almost verbal dialogue with anyone who views it. Presentation of this piece is almost as important as the piece itself in expressing my study of the history of the Maya people and the cultures of Mesoamerica. Presented as an actual historical Maya codex, The Boston Codex crosses the boundaries of historical scholarship and artistic deception.

SK Hampton

Continued

Heres more

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Continued

I have continued working on the travel journal. Here are some more pictures.

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A quote

I quote John L. Stephens, a novelist who traveled in the year 1840 to Palenque, the jungle city he describes here:

"In the midst of desolation and ruin we looked back at the past, cleared away the gloomy forest, fancied every building perfect, with its terraces and pyrimids, its sculptured and painted ornaments, grand, lofty, and imposing, and overlooking an immense inhabited plain; we called back into life the strange people who gazed at us in sadness from the walls; pictured them, in fanciful costumes and adorned with plumes and feathers, ascending the terraces of the Palace and the steps leading to the temples... In the romance of the world's history nothing ever impressed me more forcibly than the spectacle of this once great and lovely city, overturned, desolate, and lost; discovered by accident, overgrown with trees for miles around, and without even a name to distinguish it."

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