2019
Chicken-wire, lighting, paper
This installation piece started as a sculpture, made with chicken-wire and paper, which portrays a mother and her child. In constructing this piece, I stepped out of my comfort zone in attempting to manipulate the stubborn materials. Additionally, the chicken-wire was hardly visible at a distance. In my attempt to sharpen the contrast of the image, I experimented by shining a light upon the figure and casting a shadow on the wall.
Collage, 9 x 6 in. each
This piece is inspired by its namesake, Maya Angelou’s 1971 poem. It originated as a project for my literature class, in which I was tasked to create an imagery scrapbook. I chose “Harlem Hopscotch” because I wanted to understand more about the lives of those in the African-American community and honor the literary master Maya Angelou. I created sixteen panels, each representing a different line of the poem. I used my own interpretation of the poem and my perception of its cultural significance as inspiration. The use of paper cutting, rather than paint or pencil, proved to be incredibly time consuming.
2019
11 x 15 in.
Mixed media
BarCoded is a mixed media double self-portrait that was experimentally created by using a combination of 7 different mediums–pencil, watercolor, oil pastels, colored pencils, acrylic paint, charcoal, and ink–on watercolor paper. This piece is inspired by the polarity of distaste and indifference, representing that the opposite of hatred is not love, but rather indifference for an outcome.
Ink paper collage,
24 x 18 in.
This piece, composed of torn newsprint soaked in varying shades of ink, forced me out of my comfort zone because I had not previously worked with these media. This piece also taught me how to problem solve, as I had to salvage the piece after clumsily spilling ink all over the work piece.
