Pig or Cow?

You decide. Made two summers ago in Berkeley.

Life-Sized Figure Sculpture

Here's what came of thirty hours with a live model in intro sculpture this year:

Patchwork (triptych?)

I made these during my winter break craft frenzy, just to play around with cool patterns with the fabric I had. Got really ambitious and went thrifting, accumulating loads and loads of lace and paisley and whatnot, then shoved it in a canvas bag under my bed. I will make a quilt this summer.
...I'm posting this partially for self motivation with the idea that if I announce my dreams that they will become... REALITY! (There's a Disney song about this I'm sure...)

Oh, and I've begun to collect beautiful keys

There's this great antique shop down the street from my work where they have key chains filled with these ancient slender skeleton beauties. What wonderful necklace charms they make too. Just beware: they tend to prompt cheesy pick up lines. ("So is that the key to your heart?")
I have yet to come up with an substantially jovial yet wittier response... Help?

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Markmaking and Representation

Here's some of my work from a drawing class I took at school.

 And here's my final project, centered around the idea of creating textured surface to omit detail in landscape drawings.

Dirt, glue, and coffee on paper

Dirt, glue, and coffee on crinkled brown paper

Dirt, glue, and coffee on paper textured with rice

Brown oil pastel on course sand paper

Acrylic paint and dirt on paper textured with dirt, glue, and pine needles.

Apprenticeship with Lena Wolff

Much of my work with bay area artist Lena Wolff was spent in her backyard studio, dedicated to tasks like hole punching, paper pricking, paper shape cutting, drawing, painting, and supply organizing. What I spent the majority of my time on by choice, was color mixing. Each morning I dove into radiant world of cobalts, turquoises, cadmiums, violets, orchres, and scarlets, watching them swim and combine in my pallet with sensational delight. For my first major project, I set out at creating an elaborate color chart using varied combinations of Lena’s watercolours. As I mixed, I really seemed to get lost in this highly absorptive, meditative  process. I did not literalize what was actually going on-- I sat in the studio alone, silently absorbed in the language of color.  


Lena granted me free time to experiment with color on my own. I created this book, or more of an album, with a collection my favorite colors that I had mixed inside. 

 

I also decided to make another paper sculpture, which is sort of a development from my less thought out sculpture that I made for my dad over winter break. 

 

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Zines!

Here are some commissions from this school year:

Unearthing lost sketchbooks

Here's what I found:

Doodling on my to-do list

Henna design

Sculpture at the Louvre

design taken from my lip balm case

"Manhattan, where small spaces are filled with big personalities"

Fall leaf collage

"WTF"

Font fun

Abstract line drawing of Muir Beach, CA

Henry Twice Upon a Time

I came across this guy in an antique shop in Brattleboro, VT. He looked like a Henry to me. And his middle name, Twice Upon a Time, is the name of the antique store. He's made from withered fabric circles patterned with stripes, flowers and polka dots layered on wire. My favorite trait of his is probably his expression, which is somewhere between terrifying and amiable. My second favorite part of Henry Twice upon a time is his big red anomalous triangle nose. I'm in love with him, but he freaks my roommates out. Here he is perched on top of my antique mannequin, Linda.