A cool day, with blooming flowers and green trees. And there is a giant power line in the middle of it. Mankind finds a way.
Garrison Johnson Political Science major
Captured on purple-green film, this photograph of the Oregon tide pools transports the viewer to a new alien world. The unusual hue casts the familiar marine landscape in an ethereal light, revealing the delicate balance between the ocean's raw beauty and its hidden mysteries."
Cecilia Jakubauskas Ecology & Evolutionary Biology major
This photograph captures the Oregon tide pools in an almost alien light. It shows a mist-laden seascape where land and water blur into something dreamlike. Figures dot the rugged shoreline, their forms softened by the haze, as if caught between reality and a distant spiritual realm.
this vertical composition captures the Pacific Coast in a moment of quiet power. The land rises and falls in layered ridges, pulling the eye from the textured foreground up through misty cliffs and into a pale, expansive sky.
This is my favorite representation of South Park in Lawrence, KS. The beautiful bright greens intermixed with light rays flowing in fill me with feelings of strong nostalgia. It reminds me of the way I recall certain memories: vivid in feeling but slightly fogged around the edges. Like looking back through a gentle film of time, where the exact details have softened, leaving only the emotion behind.
The feeling of giving a person all you have like your heart and soul while you are left with nothing.
This painting was created during my first semester at KU. It was the first art class I had taken after four years. Challenging myself to work in bright vivid color was daunting at first but I quickly realized it became just as comfortable as anything else. I have always been obsessed with the human form and in this piece, I wanted to obfuscate the figure to parallel my intense confusion surrounding identity at the time.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Trans Woman
This was painted during a time of incredible introspection leading to a new identity.
Miss America is an ongoing digital collage that will never end. The search for Miss America is an exercise in vanity exemplified by the constant tweaking in every new collage. Will the next collage finally bring me to contentment?
Created in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, this piece confronts the interference in women’s reproductive rights. The background is composed of long-winded birth control warning sheets while a central pomegranate, a symbol of fertility, is encircled by a golden halo. Male hands, clumsy and forceful, tear into the fruit, spilling its staining juice and scattering its seeds. The violent peeling reflects the destruction of bodily autonomy, evoking the fragility of reproductive rights and the consequences of their dismantling.
Oil, Gold Foil, and Paper Collage on Canvas 24" X 24"