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I've been playing with this idea that people are distracted by all these other things in life, that they are not able to see everything. One thing being those starving all around the world. I eventually came up with this image. Of a oppressed life form being buried under all these other, rather meaningless, things.

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Changing up the Forms

My goal with these was to continue with my forms but to change them up. I did a lot of research and looking at images within the Ethiopian culture. These are mainly just sketches. There are two landscape kind of images, but other than that, they are all forms.

Materials: Color pencil on paper

Russian Famine of 1921

I was recently reading about the Russian Famine of 1921 and this idea came about. In the simplest explanation the Russian famine was caused by a drought in the 1920's and roughly 5 million people died.

The top image is a map of Russia, clearly not a perfect map but it was drawn from a map of Russia. Then I took a a sheet of tracing paper and drew the image of below on the left. It was this idea of the weighted atmosphere swarming the land (a.k.a. the famine). Within those lines I then found my figures, drawn on another piece of tracing paper. People who were forced to adjust to the circumstances and were affected by it. The next row down and first image on the left is another sheet of tracing paper. On that sheet, I found text within those lines. The words I found were 5 million, famine, Russia, and drought. And lastly, I took another sheet of tracing paper and over laid it on again and designed one final image, influenced by all the other layers.

Materials: paper, tracing paper, pen

Sketch Work: Lines and Forms Study

Today in my drawing class, I was discussing with my teach my ideas. She suggested pulling the lines in the back ground up front and then pulling images out of the lines I've made. If that makes sense.

It is clearly not a finished work, but this is it thus far.

Its all still a working progress, but I'm actually rather stoked about where this is going. I really like the idea of chance in work, which is kind of what's going on in this work. Something about it kind of reminds me of Jackson Pollock's work.

Once again, I took a pen cap to smear the ink all over. However, in the bottom righthand corner, I just poured it on there. Then I took white acrylic paint and dipped my mechanical pencil.

Materials: Printmaking paper, ink, and acrylic paint

Experimental Works

  

These works are essentially experimental works developed after the Forms in Environment. My only goal was to play with the materials I had with me at the time and see what happened thereafter.

Organic-al Textures Final

Final products of Organic-al Textures. Each is on a wood panel, with oil paint and it’s own texture. The first: string (3’x5’), the second: paper(3’x4’), and the third: wall plaster(3’x6’).