Christyal Rood Art
Christyal uses photography, poetry, filmmaking, and painting as a means to inspire others to express their thoughts, emotions, and desires. She utilizes these art forms to highlight specific topics and create a safe space for transparency and vulnerability. It is her aim to ensure patrons know they are not alone in their struggle. It gives power to those who feel or think they’re powerless and opens different avenues of self-expression, creates a platforms to be heard, allows pain to be recognized, and helps healing to take place. She uses her art to be the change she needed as a young woman, the voice of encouragement, the shoulder to lean on, and the backbone for others to stand.
Her art is inspired by different experiences she’s encountered throughout life and her everyday interactions with people. It depicts real life issues that many face and births strength by presenting thought-provoking questions not often discussed. She seeks to remind people they are important and that everyone desire love, joy, peace, and healing. “I choose to create utilizing these mediums because it allows others to see my perspective in creative ways.”