To Be Desired

Interviewed and featured in 2024 Paetow High School Yearbook:

For AP art student Isabella Leyton, art is the way to tap into a plethora of intangible ideas and feelings. This is evident in her piece "To Be Desired," which she describes as a piece about "finding self-love within yourself. Although the piece itself is about love, it reaches into the deeper emotions to show others that they are not isolated when they are feeling alone. "I don't think it necessarily spreads a positive message. I feel like instead of spreading positivity, it brings awareness to certain dark feelings that most people feel and bottle up," Leyton said. "This is a message to others that you're not the only one that feels this way. "To Be Desired" is only one of Leyton's pieces that represent love in many differing relationships one experiences throughout life. "In most of my art a
recurring theme is basically about love, whether it's self-love, familial love, or just platonic love, Leyton said.
"I just wanted to focus on a certain aspect of love that involved myself because sometimes love isn't always with other people."