An exhibition poster I made for the Senior Art show on April 15 in the University Library. The original image is called "Medusa," but I superimposed some text over top to make it into a poster that I placed in several of the academic buildings around campus. This is poster 2 of 2, the other poster used the "kiss" image discussed in one of the previous blogs.

quick ink sketch called "kiss" that was featured in the 2012 issue of First Circle, Muskingum's literary and art magazine produced annually. an idea for a sculpture, hopefully I'll be able to make these figures into a series once I get into grad school and actually get some space to work with.

A mixed media drawing titled "This Is Only A Test," made during my sophomore year at Muskingum University. Basically inspired by the relatively paranoic governmental warnings/conductings of tests on the radio, television, loud speakers etc. especially for "emergency broadcast system" alerts and other unnatural voices that warn the public about certain events, circumstances etc. The government has control over certain devices available to the public, wanted to make a dark-biohazard colored 1950's- esque spokesperson-woman to fit the artificial voice used in many of these concepts.

a mixed media drawing i made after a field trip visiting a classmates alpaca farm outside of zanesville.
I've studied ancient Latin American history and learned about the important usage of alpacas in the Andean and Chilean mountains, when certain indigenous peoples would use these animals for carrying supplies up narrow, treacherous cliffs, and these animals were used for food, clothing, and their skeletons and body parts were made into practical things like instruments, tools, weapons, etc. But now after visiting the alpaca mill, it seems these animals have little purpose other than to make people wealthy for their fur and breeding purposes. The text around the alpaca image reads, "I wonder, if an animal had the ability to think abstractly, would it question the purpose of its existence? What would this Alpaca conclude? I don't know?"

a large sculpture installation I created sophomore year at Muskingum University titled "Reaquaintance." The figures are hand painted, chipboard-wood cut outs that stand around 6ft4''-6'5''. I stood them up in a field one autumn afternoon and took this high definition photo. There are several philosophical concepts involved with this piece, some of which involve the context of the materials in relation to the setting, while other issues involve the justapositional dichotomy and strong contrast of nature versus man-made substance.

a drawing I made a couple years ago titled "the diligent student." just wanted to express my thoughts on standardized testing and its increased use in schools. I feel that standardized testing methods are not necessarily the best way to assess intelligence, they classify individuals and turn them into numbers, simplifying things that can't be made simple.

A quick sketch I made titled "Totalitarian Time." Exploring Kant's views on space and time, as being a priori knowledge in which intuitions, sensations, concepts, thoughts, and reality altogether must abide by in order for a posteriori, empirical notions to occur. Basically by switching the place of the head and the watch, I thought it was a way of showing the dictation of time over everything, as opposed to a person looking at their watch or clock, the clocks watch us.

An ink sketch I did after the Zanesville animal massacre. I knew the events didn't actually occur the way they did as depicted in this satire-political cartoon of sort, but I wanted to perhaps show the cruelty and wildness that happened on Terry's farm that evening. Outsiders don't and won't really know what happened that afternoon, although there have been several police and news reports describing the events in more detail. A tragic event nevertheless.

Art & Brief Discussion

A large sculpture I made for an advanced sculpture class here at Muskingum University.
The head-bust is reminiscent of the Moai figures located on Rapa Nui (Easter Island.)
I carved the head sculpture using hammers and chisels, then attached the angular pieces for
the nose and mouth. I then mixed a stain to color to wood, and then covered it in a polyurethane finish to seal the deal. The legs/tentacles are 5-7 feet long, composed of inter-woven and hand-tangled black bailing wire. The legs support the bust freely, and evoke dynamics and kinesthetic qualities which are an ode of sort, to the islanders of Rapa Nui, and their extensive, elaborate labor used when creating the monoliths.

Art and Brief Discussion

This is an image I made for a sculptural proposition, titled "Leporidae Man."
I used mixed media, primarily ink, colored pencil, and also the Microsoft Paint program.
Leporidae is the general term for the family of hare and rabbit species, so I thought it was appropriate to
use a broad contextual term to describe this fellow. Ideally, I would have this made into a life-size sculpture, complete with wine stains, real flies, and smoke-drenched clothing.
I won't reveal too much about the content of this piece however, because it is important for the viewer to speculate the meaning.