Visual Art
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Collage Spreads (2019-)
After graduating college, I started exploring analog collaging more using various magazines, cards, stickers, stamps, and washi tape I've accumulated over the years. Using a blank journal, I execute the collages in the form of 2-page spreads. Each spread deals with different themes related to my emotional state at the time of production. Some of these themes include nostalgia, accountability, connection, community, gender, and sexuality. My goal is to fill the entire journal with collages over time. Here is a selection of the spreads I've completed so far.
Video Art and Prints from Information Environments Course (Spring 2018)
This project serves as an exploration of individual/collective trauma and memory making by visualizing concepts of construction, deconstruction, cycles, and non-linearity in relation to themes surrounding modern conflicts and violence that have or continue to involve the United States as well as mythology and Christian religious imagery. Each collage print has an accompanying text print with quotes relating to its subject matter.
All images were sourced and scanned from the Rotherhithe Picture Research Library located in London.
All images were sourced and scanned from the Rotherhithe Picture Research Library located in London.
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Photographs from Introduction to Black & White Photography Course (Fall 2017)
A collection of black and white photographs made using a dark room in the fall of 2017 that have scanned digitally and slightly edited using Photoshop.
This project titled What We Are, Multitudes explores LGBTQ embodiment, performance, resistance, and intimacies.
This project titled What We Are, Multitudes explores LGBTQ embodiment, performance, resistance, and intimacies.
Prints from Between Analog and Digital Printmaking Course (Spring 2017)
A selection of projects completed in the spring of 2017 using both digital (Photoshop) and analog printmaking practices, such as monoprint and watercolor. These pieces explore issues of gender, sexuality, childhood, and my upbringing in south Florida. (*These images have been scaled down for web viewing.)
Projects from Design in the Visual Arts Course (Fall 2016)
A selection of projects completed in the fall of 2016 to practice and highlight various design principles, using Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and AfterEffects.
Exploring the Cyborg Final Project for Intro to Digital Art (Spring 2016)
This body of work completed in the spring of 2016 using Photoshop focuses on the multifaceted nature and condition of the human cyborg in several different futuristic and sci-fi settings. I wanted to explore themes of integration, transcendence, destruction, and loss of self through these pieces in order to create new and ethereal worlds and design individuals that occupy them. Inspired by the 1995 film, Ghost in the Shell, these works bridge together reality and fiction through compositing and the inclusion of some multimedia elements. As our contemporary present continues to steam ahead into the robotized and automated future, it's important to consider the ethical developments that will come about as well as the impending challenge to our perceptions of subjectivity and agency.
Themed Digital Pieces for Tumblr or Other Personal Projects
A selection of various pieces created for the Tumblr platform or other personal projects for digital or print publication from 2013 to 2019 using Photoshop.
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