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…
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…
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.
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 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…
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…
This was created for AP Sustained Investigation in AP Drawing. This work depicts a seal on top of a sail boat, which came from a news story that I saw where seals have started interacting with humans in new ways. The detailed seal, juxtaposed with…
It depicts a bear climbing out of a tent, using the visual of this unlikely situation to communicate that animals need to be left alone so that they remain without interference from humans./This was created in my Viscom 204 class last semester, where…