Donovan Scott Lipscombe Covarrubias

My artwork creates life. Oftentimes when creating artwork I take inspiration from emotions and every shape, color, and idea associated with them. Emotion is the basis of living, humanity, and survival; in turn it becomes the root of my artwork. While my mediums vary, the process behind creation is the same. If my goal is to tell a story, to create a costume, to sculpt a sculpture, it all is seen through the lens of how it makes others as well as myself feel.

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Processing and analyzing human emotion, particularly within myself, has become an integral part of how I view and find peace within the world. From a young age, I was made to feel a range of negative emotions, many of which I did not dissect for years. Theater came to me in my youth as a form of not only individual expression, but as a medication. Through my youth I was able to use theater to mentally escape daily struggles and in growing up to find more forms of theater/art, my goal has become flipped onto my audience. On a stage, behind it, in a sculpture, or in writing I aim to provide an escape from negative emotions to the viewers of my artwork. I tell a story of a different world, a different life, a place that someone can invest themselves in to provide relief for any individual difficulties, even if temporary.