My name is Jose Melgar, I love to create for the passion , for the freedom I attain in making a new world out of my mind, my second chance
You decide who will appear in Artforum Magazine, take home $25,000, and display their work at The Art of Elysium's Salon!
My favorite art to create is art without reference, art that comes straight from my mind , art that takes experience ,rawness, full emotions, I make art with various different mediums always expanding with materials ,ideas, meaning, and making “something out of nothing” which is something i take pride in, using genuine trash using stuff that could be reused for beauty, from broken cassettes, to bottle caps, using broken tvs as my canvas, street signs , incorporating stitching and so much more.
Where do you find inspiration?one of my biggest inspiration is comic book artist with the wide range of styles and the process of creating a whole new world from scratch, aswell as taking inspiration from the world and just reusing whatever i can back into my art like tvs signs desks and sm more, just the idea of making something out of nothing , giving hope to the hopless
What would you do with $25,000?i would invest start working in a studio instead of my kitchen, i would help out other local artists aswell because i think its important to make sure other artists know it is possible and you just have to reach for it , and i want to make a difference and a change in my community here in san pedro california
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