Hopes and dreams. Love and loss. These are the experiences that make up our lives. We have desires that we never quite attain. We expect love and relationships to never end. What are we afraid of? And what would we do with forever?

I'm only trying to make sense of my life. I want to be fulfilled in a world that, more and more, is fighting me for control. Popular media is trying to take any hope for contentment away from me. I'm constantly being told that I need more than what I have, that what I have is not good enough and that what I want is somehow deviant. In ten seconds, twenty images flash across my television screen; all of them try to show me the right way to live my life.

I want to appreciate what I have while I have it. And when what I have is gone, I want to be open to accept what is new. And if what is new is foreign to me, I want the courage to embrace it and the tolerance to understand it.

I'm trying to make a connection. There is not enough common ground. Everyone is put into a category, put into a box and labeled. Those labels save other people the trouble of getting to know us. But, more often than not, those labels don't tell other people anything useful or meaningful about who we really are.

I can describe my art. You can experience my art. The best way for me to explain my art is this: my art is about my life, and I hope people will find something in my experiences that will help them make sense of their own lives. -Sam Frazier

Bachelor of Arts/Visual Arts University of California, San Diego

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