Way overdue post

It's been a while, and lets face it, grad school kind of sucks up my life: mentally, physically, emotionally, etc. But its summer and I'm feeling alright (mostly because I've been swimming 5 times in the past week.) These photos are from one of the last installations I did before summer break. I've been exploring and experimenting with comics as an installation form. I've also been creating characters through material objects and environments, this one specifically is based on my grandfather, who I didn't know well. Happy summer folks, More art on the way!

For folklore

Hey everyone, so I took a Native American folklore class this term, and it was SPECTACULAR. As a grad student I had to propose an extra project for the class. I really wanted to do some kind of comic that relayed some of the ideas talked about in my class. This class was focused on the modern times of native tribes, there was some historical reference (obviously needed) but the main focus was the different issues these tribes face today. I am taking a comics methodologies class in the spring (starting in 2 weeks!) and really want to extend this comic further and deeper. Due to time constraints (due dates) I couldn't cover everything I wanted to. But with this comics class it could become a larger project for me.

Corn

Textile Printing

Wall Comic Part 2

Wall comic

Hi everyone, hope your holidays were swell, I just wanted to post some photos of the work I produced last term, an outrageously, frantic, busy, but successful term. I took a textile printing class and I am now glad I have this useful skill under my belt. I played around a lot with text I wrote from my comics and poetry, ones such as "swallowing arrows and spitting fire" referring and reacting specifically to my personal turmoils during the term. Another was "in the morning I pulled the curtains and we were gone" a reference to a place I visited in where I once lived, but moved away from and the degree of separation I ultimately felt returning to that place. I also started experimenting with pins and string forming text on the wall in 7 individual boxes creating a site specific comic, I was really drawn to the immediacy of this process. The text reads all together "with these arms, I will swim, through the thicket of labor and loss." I am going to investigate this process further this term along with soft sculpture coming out of the wall.