This artwork by Decatur sixth-grader, Emmie, was inspired by Chicago Artist Evan LaRuffa, whose artwork is currently on display at Decatur Classical School. Evan is also the founder of IPaintMyMInd, a nonprofit that helps turn spaces such as Decatur School into an art gallery.
This Evan La Ruffa quote inspired Emmie's art. Evan said, "if art gives you an 'anything is possible' feeling, you're on the right track." Well, that inspired me to make art that showed the human mind opening up and showing caverns. I was attempting to express how you grow and change through life, just like a cave changes as it gets older. It's an analogy in a drawing.