A Story is Not a Tree

This piece is a set of brown paper tapestries painted with white acrylic ink and a gel pen. I also have the tools I used to make the piece mounted beside them. For this piece, I was really interested in…

DESCRIBE THE OBJECT: The color is what I am always interested in. No matter for pigments, the skin of a banana, or candle lights, I always focus on the color change. I’ve been trying to mix the pigments, or adjust…

These scans depict my face and putting on lip gloss, the different identification cards I must carry around with me, and soap bubbles which I found to look quite similar to a nebula or sky in space. Finding the objects…

In this set I’ll be looking at five pieces that I’ve worked on so far in our Drawing Machines class: Chili Scan, Kirby Databend, Snake-scanned, Sanitizer-scanned, and Simon-scanned Chili Scan This piece is a video scan I made showing a…

One of my favorite things about art is being able to create from a vision and what I enjoy the most is getting to create art that represents me as a person. Sometimes it is impossible to describe a person…

This piece is a heavily distorted video. The screen begins a bright magenta before seemingly “breaking apart” into a fragmented image. Bright, saturated colors, alongside dark blacks and bright whites fill the screen. The original video’s text and image are…

Work Title : BOW / BYRNE / DANCE Describe your object: This video is an MTV-style music television section from an alternate reality. I wanted to channel television segments where musicians introduced other music videos. Here, David Byrne’s interview is…

Scanner art is unique because of the ability to unfold objects into two dimensions with incredible detail. The fractal-like detail a scanner creates is a unique trait that allows any scanned image to be zoomed in on, creating multiple new…

These pieces explore the meanings of regular imagery and objects through glitching. Over the course of this class thus far, we’ve explored different ways of corrupting and glitching videos and images digitally and with the help of machines. My images…

Work Title: Cute Red Disasters Describe your object: This is a scan of a book of Goya prints, a Japanese postcard, two kinds of bubble wrap, a lip liner, a pencil, two one dollar bills, and two plastic babies. The…

Describe the object On my 16th birthday my mom and step-dad got me this cool set of wireless headphones that had my name printed on them. I immediately asked my mom if she could help me choose a case for…

DESCRIBE THESE OBJECTS: The light and the dark talk playfully with each other. DESCRIBE YOUR MOTIVATION IN CREATING THESE OBJECTS: A lot of my motivation came from wanting to create unfamiliar patterns out of familiar materials, both physical and digital….

My conference project is a photo series of personal memories, looking at what causes the anxiety-inducing changes that make me who I am today. My series is comprised of photos collected from the digital photo albums across my family members’…

This project is a compilation of comics, and each comic explores a different aspect of life living within a state of paranoia. This paranoia centers around heart health but appears in a variety of ways, from a fear of heart…

I think about the world ending every day. This project was born out of the necessity to get my paranoia out there into something tangible which could be the start of making it more manageable, or at least more understandable….

This piece was created using string, wire, plastic garden fencing, cellophane, glue, sticks, the photo editing software Pixlr, and some old photographs that contain fond memories.  I was born on and have grown up on a planet that is slowly…

This assemblage was inspired by the personal anxiety of being overworked and the constant struggle to find a balance of work and play and, though hard to reach, having goals in sight. Starting fresh at a new college for the…