You are the sum of your experiences. As an artist your life experiences are often reflected in your work. Those experiences can be general, as in things that happen in society that are historical or social. Experiences can also be personal. The experiences can be direct and have an impact on you, or vicarious, something you observe read about or are told about. How you react to these experiences to bring them to visual fruition makes your art unique to you.
The picture of the gloves on the back of a chair remind me of my grandmother returning from church on a sunday afternoon. She would take off those white gloves and put them on the chair. We always made jam as a family affaire in the summer. The Mason jars were a part of that activities. The baby shoes were my daughters. When she was small I had a baby carrier that allowed me to carrier her on my chest as she faced me. I can still remember her beating hart. The shoes always remind me of that experience.
Some pictures can be very personal based on your life experiences, others may reflect a place in time or a feeling.
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