Arielle A Labra Campos (they/them) is a queer Latinx interdisciplinary artist born in Zimbabwe to immigrant parents. Moving at the age of 5, they spent most of their life in South America, living in Chile and Argentina before moving to Seattle in 2018.
From an early age, Arielle started developing an artistic expression. Painting and drawing on everything around her.
They are a self-taught artist; their work is centered in their lifelong connection to the ocean. Arielle likes to combine the surface creatures (humans) with the ocean, bringing harmony and connecting two worlds that don’t seem to go together - utilizing blue and purple colorways, linework, and dot work with acrylics, dry media and digital art.
Artist Statement
I am captivated by what we take for granted, how aspects of our lives and our planet are so easily overlooked. How we become immersed in our day-to-day agendas, stuck looking forward, but rarely taking time to breathe and admire this moment. To admire the world around us.
The Planet Earth is dynamic and diverse, constantly in motion. Our human tendency to categorize and separate leads to a false sense of difference - that things are as they should be, and do not intermix. But common ground and shared experience surround us.
Though the underwater world is defined in opposition to the surface, beneath the binary lies connection. Without one, the other one cannot live.
This world, which is full of divergent characteristics, requires totality to achieve balance. In the end, the whole cannot be greater without each of its parts, and reality is made complete by everything around us.