About me

My sustained investigation is centered around the question: what is the importance of place and how do places make you feel? This led into discussions of how places affect memories and how they reflect fading memories. One of my first pieces was “Lost at Camp”, which is a large painting of a girl on cardboard. This gave me a lot of inspiration with the colors and abstractness, but I knew I wanted to emphasize the place. For the next piece, “View of the Farm Stand”, I continued expressing landscape through abstraction. My next couple pieces continued exploring colors, textures, and patterns. Once I had finished several, I had a much better feel for what kinds of styles I wanted and how different shapes could reflect memories. That prompted me to go back and revise a few of the paintings. I didn’t want to change large parts, but I wanted the pieces to become more cohesive. For my second painting, the landscape, I went back and made the grass match the other grass I did in another painting. Then I was drawn back to cardboard. My second cardboard piece, “Lost in Hanover”,  is of a large purple patchwork girl and the outline of a building. This piece was crucial to my theme because it made me realize how to put all the parts of a painting I wanted together. I was able to combine realism with abstraction, which was my end goal. I could also use bright and bold colors. This piece made me realize that bright colors help people remember memories even if they don’t remember the whole story. The bright color emphasizes the place, while the lack of detail shows how it’s fading from the person’s memory.