All About Me!

My name's Luci Becker, I'm 17, go to Laguna Beach High School and currently in AP ceramics. I love all forms of entertainment: art, music, movies, TV, and books. I also enjoy the out doors and going hiking with my dog Willow whenever I can. Ever since I was a very little kid, creativity and art have always been a very important part of my life. When I first started preschool, my mom would send me off with my backpack, lunch, a paintbrush, and a kiss on the cheek. From a young age my mother has encouraged me to create, whether its pictures, movies, projects, or a new fictional animal. The walls of my home are wallpapered in pictures, but not photographs, painting and sketches, watercolors and pastels my sister and I have done. Our home is not a house, but rather a gallery dedicated to the work of the Becker girls, in which we merely live. My childhood was marked by art festivals and contest, most of which, despite being self taught, I won. As I grew older and life became more difficult, my mother pushed to keep art in my life, and keep one of my best traits alive, creativity. I enrolled in art classes, attended plein-air paint offs, and toured museums reflecting on the work of the greats. This study of art, broadened my mind and peaked my curiosity, though more for science than art, and especially in the places were they overlapped. As I entered high school, I decided to branch out from the 2D and enter the 3D through a ceramics class. I thrived in the environment, being able to create on a daily basis and see the work that came from my fingertips propelled me into the AP course the soonest I could take it. Though this class was beneficial in the sense that it allowed me to create, it also helped me to realize, there’s no way I’d want to be an artist. It did however, teach me how to look around and how to use creativity in my everyday life, and school, to solve problems and better my life and the life of those around me. The creation of a sculpture is long and complicated and almost never straightforward. My experiences with art have thus made me curious and always inclined to take the road less traveled when it comes to issues and problem solving.