In making this piece of visual poetry entitled “Iam”, I discovered numerous things about myself.  I had written the poetry piece in my first year at Fanshawe College during a time when I had no clue as to whom, or what I was.  So I dipped into drugs, in search of an outlet to aid in exploring myself.  Lost and confused I was seeking answers that I desperately needed.  Not long after writing the poetry, I fell deeper into the drug addiction and slowly began to lose my focus to write.  I later also found myself beginning to really hate life and especially how I was living it.  The days became so useless and the nights even more so.  I was always clouded and had difficulty communicating with people.  So I had put my books filled with writing, away.  Less than two years later I made it to my final year of college, where we were asked to design videos from concept to completion. 

With so many concepts floating around in my mind, I found direction.  And finally I felt like I knew what I was truly meant to do.  I focused on projects again and the drug habit began to dissipate as I began creating projects such as the “I am” video, where I pulled out my writing from the previous years and merged them to video.  During the creation of my art work I began to pay no attention to my addictions and realized that I wanted to create, and not ignore my talents or destroy them by wasting time on useless addictions.  Life for me is to design art and continue on towards a career in the media industry.  In discovering this I realized who and what “I am”.

Art is expression and only through expression can we find ourselves.

Sincerely,

Gino