This piece is a study of Joseph Ducreux's self-portrait, "Le Discret." I worked on mastering his painting style and replicating it with soft pastels. Of course, instead of a portrait of Ducreux, I have replaced the Frenchman with a fox. With a sly…
Inspired by the stop-motion film "Coraline," this mixed media movie poster recreates the iconic character. I collaged this piece with hand-dyed yarn, a clay key, watercolors, and various sewing supplies to pay homage to one of my favorite films and…
The prompt for this piece was “create a picture with a man, a woman, a dog, a bird, and a banana.” So, I drew a father having a tea party with his young daughter and her stuffed animals, and the mother bringing in a tray of cookies.
Inspired by the notion of everyone’s eventual death and my family’s hereditary heart condition. I created a clay heart with my great grandfather’s pocket watch embedded inside. My dear friend Ardyn is the model for this photograph.
For this piece, I created an inventory for a character I made up based around Aztec mythology. This character is a flight attendant, bringing souls to the afterlife in the Sun. I was inspired by the gods Huitzilopochtli (hummingbird) and Quetzalcoatl…
Utenzi wa zinduko la ujamaa is one of several political poems written in the 1970’s following the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar under one government to form the Republic of Tanzania. The author describes the establishment of the socialist system…
A black-and-white photograph of a woman and two young boys playing musical instruments while a man looks on. The woman is playing a piano, one of the boys is playing an accordion, and the second boy is playing a violin. The man leans against the…
A color photograph of the Caryann and Leonard Johnson family. The large family group is assembled in rows, with the first two rows of people seated and the back rows standing.