Makers 2021: Ysabella Villacorte

Since this year’s theme is “time” I decided to show my bedroom, something that tells a lot about me, in three different stages of time. This project focuses on my experience as a high school senior/college freshman during the pandemic. The pandemic affected huge milestones in my life and I expressed my emotions using color.

The light washes in “October” show my expectations and eagerness for my senior year of high school. In “June” the colors get a little more intense and I try to contrast my excitement for growing up with the bitterness the pandemic caused. “November” was the hardest for me to paint because I couldn’t remember much except how busy, stressed, and disorganized I was.

The windows are expressions of how I felt during that time. The flowing branches and bright leaves in “October” represent how much fun I had with my tennis team, my friends, and my family in our last year together. In “June” the branches are bare and angular and the green is a more sickly tone. The intense blue in the rainy windows of “November” show how I felt being away from campus and stuck at home. It can also be interpreted as drawn curtains to shut out what was happening in the world. The absence of color from my laptop shows how emotionless I felt about what used to be an escape or a break for me.