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.