The still life was built inside a shoebox using objects found around the campus, and then drawn using micro pens. I didn’t really enjoy working with the pens; they were too hard and precise. The previous project was with charcoal, which I find much more fluid and responsive.

11 in by 8 in, ink on paper, 2008.

Across Main Street from our apartment was a tienda Mexicana that I went to frequently, and on the corner was an old clockshop where they sold and repaired clocks and watches. For a perspective assignment in Drawing II at A-B Tech, I decided to draw a series of images of this block. The perspective in this drawing emphasizes the clockshop, though the tienda Mexicana is just down the street. Another drawing focused on the tienda, which the owner now displays on the wall behind the counter. The paper is a cornflower paper, which has blue petals embedded.

12 in by 19½ in, ink and gouache on cornflower paper, 2010.

A collaboration series with Willis Kallay at Brevard College. We hand-cut a set of three stencils based on a scan of a maple seed found on campus.

Each about 11 in by 9 in, ink on paper, 2012.

I began with the photo illustrating an abnormal curvature of the spine and built the composition from there. The photo were added through polymer gel lift, because I wanted to have the transparency to the diagrams.

10 in by 8 in mixed media on paper, 2012.

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The photographs used in the mixed media Between the Heaves of Storm came from a book on abnormal curvatures of the spine. Of course, they serve their purpose along the text, but they also seem so demeaning, yet cold and analytical.

10 in by 8 in mixed media on paper, 2012.

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10 in by 9 in ink and acrylic monoprint on paper collage on paper, 2012.

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I had been keeping the “The Origin of False Faces” strip for several months waiting for its purpose. I knew it needed to be painted yellow, so I started there. This collage of three pieces was then composed intuitive as a response.

10½ in by 8 in ink and acrylic monoprint on paper collage on paper, 2012.

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The anchor worm is a visible parasite that lives on fresh water fish. Quiz on Wednesday.

10 in by 8 in acrylic monoprint and paper collage on paper, 2012.

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10 in by 8 in ink and acrylic monoprint and paper collage on paper, 2012.

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I began with the drawing of figure in three different poses and built up the composition in response to that form.

8½ in by 7½ ink monoprint and paper collage on paper, 2012.

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The white paper was torn from a reading workbook on alienation and relationships. Ink and acrylic prints were layered, each a personal response to the previous layers.

10 in by 8 in, acrylic, ink, and collage on paper, 2012.

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The process for these collage pieces was intuitively based on my response to form and composition.

11 in by 8 in, acrylic, ink, and collage on paper, 2012.

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