“The placid, bony structure of the deteriorating person portrays the gruesome, embodied personality bottled up within ourselves turned inside out, the core, ugly layer that we share to reveal the realism of our natural being…”

This is how Alexandra Franzese, 12th grade, describes her piece titled  “Inside out.”

“I was inspired by looking into a lot of different stick art,” Alexandra said.

“Inside out” was created in AP studio art. “It took me about a week to complete. I just put my own little twist into it. You can point out things in it – such as, you know it’s a skull,” she said.   Alexandra discovered she was a talented artist when she was only 2 years old.

“I would draw people and like random princesses and stuff,” Alexandra said.

“Art is comforting; I go to it to get out of stress and I know it’s something I can stick with and I know it’s mine.” Some day, Alexandra wants to become a illustrator for children’s books. “I want to go to UCF; they have a program called SBAB, I believe, and it’s a really great art program.”

Alexandra’s artwork doesn’t just hang in the halls of Osceola. “I was submited into the Dali, Morean, and the fine art museum,” she said.