“it's flying by faster than i thought”

“it's flying by faster than i thought” was created the day I discovered that my wisdom teeth were growing out. Seeing my wisdom teeth come out made me sit down and realize time is flying by and I am growing up faster than I think. From celebrating losing my baby teeth as a child to worrying about losing my wisdom teeth as I enter my early adulthood, which represents a mark of growth and maturity. In this piece I am looking in the mirror while all of my teeth fall out of my mouth, while a ghostly figure of a younger me stares from behind. Each tooth represents the fragments of my youth falling out in front of my eyes.

In addition to the drawing, I hand sculpted a bunch of teeth out of clay. I want the audience to see all the little fragments of my childhood that are my teeth. I also continue the pattern of bringing the things in my drawing to real life with ceramics.