Fish

Artist: Cameron Kishore
Writer: Elizabeth Park
Editor: Shiori Chen

Artist Cameron Kishore, a sophomore, looks to the colors and textures of the natural world for her recent work Fish. She has been making art since the age of 3 or 4, she explains, but her past year at Carlmont has seen her working with more focus and nuance than ever before. In Fish, with its warm orange and cool blue tones interspersed to create illusions of water and light, what you see is what you get: the artist denies that there ever was a point to it besides the fish it is named after. She describes how the painting “became what it became” after 4 or 5 hours spent making marks with a pallet knife, and once that was done, she called it “Fish” because that is what it is, after all. For Cameron Kishore, artistic energy is best spent on developing the picture itself with paint strokes, and not on naming it with some poetic title. She had originally intended for Fish to be a gift to her family, but she’s not sure of that now. She may instead just keep it, as a reminder of what wonder there is around her.