Last Spring semester before PAFA

So I'm done with this school, and this is the work that I think stood out from my last semester here.

Kyllies:

I took over a hundred photos of my friend doing these weird visceral motions with her body and drew them on top of each other to see how they'd look. I wanted to capture something innate in her without it being about her face, but more of her body language.





And this one I never properly finished. It's still really rough and nowhere near where I want it to be, but I don't see myself working on it anytime soon:



Missing People:

This kind of echoes the idea behind the obituary drawings, but the people featured here are all from a missing persons archive. They're drawn on with ink.



Sculpture:

Okay, so this one just kind of evolved after this drawing that I had done in the beginning of the semester. It's an abstracted plastic bag on a stick and I don't really want to explain it further than that:

"15"

This was for an independent studio class that I took last semester, which is basically just me working with one professor on big projects. I made wall of these portraits as a SORT OF memorial, but not really. I know nothing about the people I have drawn, except that they're all dead. I won't be honoring their lives, just presenting them. The point is that no one will ever know who they were, and the only thing they'll have to go by are the representations I've provided of them, which themselves are ephemeral, since it's done on paper towels. Not meant to last long, just like everyone else. I want people to look at the diversity of people on the wall and be able to relate to someone, then eventually see themselves and our impermanence. It's really morbid and depressing, yeah, but just something I've needed to make for a while. Blah, blah.