Ella Lutz-Carrillo: ‘Articulation’

As a student in the medical assisting practicum, Ella Lutz-Carrillo said she has always been interested in things such as skeletal anatomy.

“It was kind of a play on loneliness. So close yet so far, like two people were reaching for each other. I wanted to represent that through the use of bones.”

When asked about her process, Lutz-Carrillo said it was really hard.

“I had to be really patient and I’m not a patient person. Painting bones takes forever and I would just go in every class and do whatever I could, but it was really just like a waiting game. In the middle it didn’t look like anything, you had to wait till the end to release what it was going to turn into.”

She used acrylic paint as her medium and added that the piece was definitely outside of her art style which she turned out liking. She was amazed to find out her artwork was headed to state.

“I didn’t know what to think, I thought Mr. Cannon was telling me a joke. Like, what? It was crazy.”