I Am Koops
Activating My Power
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Koops is a 17-year-old girl from Miami with a mission to inspire everyone to embrace their own power. Koops integrates power-inducing words, phrases, and statements into colorful mixed-media art with the hope that her pieces will inspire and drive positive change. She believes art should have depth and meaning, and Koops' goal is to spread more love, more kindness, and more altruism for ourselves and others in society.
Activating My Power uses curated song lyrics to depict a man in a tunnel, illustrated using an art form called text with value drawing.
"In the midst of the world shutting down; the stock market tanking to -14%; hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs; healthcare workers selflessly going on overdrive for the sake of the general public; the political and social unrest and reemerged social movements; the deathly fear instilled in people everywhere of the unknown; the isolation; I was... without words," says Koops. "It was the one time in all of history that every single person had at least one thing in common. As soon as we went into isolation, my family traveled to North Carolina, where we truly embraced the meaning of isolation. I felt like Thoreau in Walden, being completely immersed by nature, experiences, and time to reflect and find myself. This drawing, made in black in white, basically encapsulates my experience of isolation yet immersion in schools of thought, excited and optimistic about how I could drive positive change in a time like that. The piece is composed of hundreds of song lyrics that inspire me, and even more so inspired me in a time marked by such uncertainty and darkness. These songs I listen to by myself, with friends, with family, and with each of these people, we each somehow are able to pull our own meanings and power from them. Words are so powerful, and through my art I hope to evoke emotion in each viewer differently, activating their power."
Drawing paper, charcoal, pen and ink.
12.5” x 16”
Currently on view in Woman Made at Surface Area in the Miami Design District
Koops is a 17-year-old girl from Miami with a mission to inspire everyone to embrace their own power. Koops integrates power-inducing words, phrases, and statements into colorful mixed-media art with the hope that her pieces will inspire and drive positive change. She believes art should have depth and meaning, and Koops' goal is to spread more love, more kindness, and more altruism for ourselves and others in society.
Activating My Power uses curated song lyrics to depict a man in a tunnel, illustrated using an art form called text with value drawing.
"In the midst of the world shutting down; the stock market tanking to -14%; hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs; healthcare workers selflessly going on overdrive for the sake of the general public; the political and social unrest and reemerged social movements; the deathly fear instilled in people everywhere of the unknown; the isolation; I was... without words," says Koops. "It was the one time in all of history that every single person had at least one thing in common. As soon as we went into isolation, my family traveled to North Carolina, where we truly embraced the meaning of isolation. I felt like Thoreau in Walden, being completely immersed by nature, experiences, and time to reflect and find myself. This drawing, made in black in white, basically encapsulates my experience of isolation yet immersion in schools of thought, excited and optimistic about how I could drive positive change in a time like that. The piece is composed of hundreds of song lyrics that inspire me, and even more so inspired me in a time marked by such uncertainty and darkness. These songs I listen to by myself, with friends, with family, and with each of these people, we each somehow are able to pull our own meanings and power from them. Words are so powerful, and through my art I hope to evoke emotion in each viewer differently, activating their power."
Drawing paper, charcoal, pen and ink.
12.5” x 16”
Currently on view in Woman Made at Surface Area in the Miami Design District