SUNSET - drawing for “sunset project.” Tried to record the sunset every night for a class. Recorded by drawing the silhouette of the landscape I saw in front of the setting sun. For final piece I combined 5 of these drawings. Doing this made life feel kinda repetitive…gotta make everyday have a different story. Cool how the silhouettes combined made its own lil imaginary Ithaca landscape.

Summit Portrait - Had fun with this triptych… a while ago I did a huge series of 20+ colored pencil portraits featuring family and friends making funny face expressions. This piece definitely echoes that project but w markers and a surrounding space incorporated. Loved playing with abstraction in his puff. Also love the way a funny face can add to a portrait.

Allegorical Space - This drawing began with my interest in the colorful ivy changing color around Cornell’s campus in the fall. I was fascinated with the way its natural colorful structure interacted with the buildings it was growing on. For this drawing I began with an extremely structured perspective drawing using simple colors and angles. I was focused on the way I wanted the space to feel, not necessarily what it literally represented. The space is not a real place. After drawing a structured room with a missing wall and ceiling I let the ivy take over, bring its color and organic shapes into the geometric space.

WILD GEESE DRAWING - drawing in response to Mary Oliver’s poem: “Wild Geese” for a intro drawing class assignment. Again, I played with perspectives and organic forms interacting with it. I am really exited about what I am onto here… I think this drawing was very successful.

The last 5 lines of the poem:
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“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese,
harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”