Lakin Fain is a third-year environmental design and fine arts student pursuing a career in architecture and lighting design. The thing that stimulates her the most as an artist is portraiture. She first started selling her work to raise money for her hometown in middle school. She has continued to take comissions and hand-paint t-shirts for her non-profit. She started her oil paintng practice seriously in 2020. Since then she has moved to Boulder and found a passion in the interaction of light, architectural form and painting.
Mr. Coffee – How have we strayed so far from our natural instincts to just consume resources with such ease that we don’t even register how it got to us, where it came from, how we feel consuming it or how much we appreciate the sustenance? Mindlessly consuming the artificial products and fortunes that are thrown at us everyday has fostered our consumerist culture. Mindful consuming is an eye-opening habit to form that fosters gratitude and satisfaction with the world around you.
If the coffee you hold in your hand had a face- perhaps it would hold more value to you. Perhaps you could empathize with its history- the labor it took to grow the beans, the fuel it took to ship to your home, and the nourishment it gives you. We humans mindlessly consume products, food, plastics daily. We often just see these things as a service to us- not as a product of labor, fuel, and design. By personifying basic things we consume daily, I hope to force some mindfulness into consumption. To realize the fortune to even have these things at all.
Student Arts Program official selection 2023
Located on the first floor, near room 125