Not at Home: Artist Book

Many thanks to Oren Sherman for introducing me to the idea of an Artist Book. Through guided meditation and writing exercises in his class we all identified important childhood memories in order to find a meaningful subject for our books. A defunct home was my subject, presented as a stage set in a pop-up or fold-out format.

Plumage

 

Upon reading Frankenstein in Oren Sherman's Illustration class we were prompted to conceptually "illustrate" a personally relatable moment in the book. I was drawn to the monster's conflict between inner nobility and outer repulsiveness, so I made this peacock out of garbage.

200 Steps

The prompt was to find subject matter within 200 steps of RISD's Illustration building. I found things (on the ground, in the basement) and turned them into adornments.

  

Spring Break Sketches

A debaucherous week captured in graphic detail.

roots in Central Park

Jan's Bookshelf in D.C.

January Jewelry

                        

Sketchbook Collages

Michelle & Allison

Completion as of 2/5/10.

Also, a painting from when I was four.

Multitudinous Illustration Styles

Sophomore classwork miscellany:

Eurydice & Orpheus

Read the myth here.

Contemporary playwright Sarah Ruhl created a Eurydice who called out Orpheus' name during their ascent from Hell, intentionally causing him to look at her. She wanted to stay dead, perhaps because it was the natural order of things, perhaps because she wanted to be with her dead father, or, as my Illustration teacher proposed, perhaps she wanted to raise Hell as a single lady.

In my diptych illustration I imply that they're holding hands, but not who initiated the hand-holding.

Kbot.

Kyra is painted/drawn in the adapted style of El Anatsui's textiles, in what I like to think is her natural environment.

sketch:

Painting I

first through third oil paintings ever attempted!

Blackbird

Commissioned Posters 2009

Freshman Year at RISD

 

Hipster Barbie & Ken!

                                           

Oh, and that's the RISD mascot Scrotie above.

(Proof that Scrotie exists for those who disbelieve.)