Dayra Flores-Velez
Dayra Flores-Velez is a Mexico-Puerto Rican American artist who grew up in Indiana and was raised by her Mexican family. She relocated to Florida at the age of 4 and began to explore the arts and visuals in her life, eventually becoming a visual artist. She began to paint the visions in her dreams and developed a fascination with sketching eyes and realized that no matter where she went, there was always something that symbolized or reminded her of eyeballs, whether in the natural world or in the sky. She believes that every gaze in the human eye communicates a distinctive message about a person, through the way we can see and feel emotion by looking through a person's eyes. Dayra is now a junior at Plainfield High School and has been taking part in art classes and has discovered new art techniques to help with her artistic direction. She seeks to explore new mediums to express herself and her artistic thoughts through different methods and points of view and hopes her work will energize people´s spirits. Her artwork has been presented in an exhibition at the Arts Garden in downtown Indianapolis. Dayra hopes to be showcased in other venues to highlight her distinctive culture and garner the appreciation of viewers for the value of Latin Art and Culture.
