My Studio

This is my studio where I create my paintings. I am working a couple of paintings and also have some new photo work also I shot while down in Maryland. I have one painting started thats about the emotions of sadness i've been going through over the stress in life. Another painting started is turning into a diptych about my relationship with my new boyfriend. I will post pictures of those when i get a chance to take some pictures of them at their current state.


This is one of the photos I took while in Maryland playing with shooting myself in the environment I am in to create context and give a personality to the people in the photograph. Unlike before where i shot them on a black background giving the viewer no idea anything about these people, essentially the people not having an identity.

This is another photo I took while in Maryland taking the advice of my adviser in experimenting with telling more about something by showing less then showing everything. He wanted me to try telling me more about someone but just showing maybe like hands. That would be more sensual then full blown sexual almost pornographic image.

First Projects

So i've started creating work for Senior Seminar. I've built a couple of panels and have gotten some stuff down on them. One aspect of myself i plan to concentrate on is how much i've moved around and how important aspects of my life are all along the East Coast. Im starting off with maps that pinpoint important parts of my life and where they are located. From there I will use a mixed media method to complete the painting.

I have also started work on a small panel which I feel really good about working on. I think it will be a challenge to work this small but as if working on a more intimate scale will help in making my work my personal. I think I may try to do a few paintings that are no bigger than 1'x2' large. Spending my senior year doing work about me I feel that a more intimate approach might be a more logical way of going about my paintings. 

While talking with Ethan about my work he pointed out something I had said while we were talking. I had said, Finally a guy who treats me right. This is a sentence that he said I should consider when creating my work. I think this is a good starting point considering the way I've been treated by guys in the past.  

Senior Seminar

I've decided to create this blog to document the work I am doing in my senior year. Im about two weeks in and have my own studio now. The stress has already come down with a move coming up and working three jobs, but im sure ill manage. I plan to use this blog to help me sort through ideas and for you guys to watch the developments in myself as I start to discover myself through my work.

You see over the years i've really lost who I am and over the past year i've made alot of progress in starting to see the person I really am, not the person I was trying to be to make others happy. I realized that I  needed to be happy before I could make others happy. So for Senior Seminar I plan to create a body of work that is all about me exploring who I am, who I was and how thats shaped who I am now, as well as exploring the relationships I have with people that have come and gone from my life.

The work that has been the start of this projects are these.  A mixed media painting as well as a set of photographs. Below I have posted two examples of the photographs.