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.

  

January Jewelry

                        

Wunderkammer der Liz

At the urging of Lee Dejasu, and with inspiration from Joseph Cornell and Mark Dion.

A box for my jewelry. Spring 2009.

The little box gets her first teeth
And her little length
Little width little emptiness
And all the rest she has

The little box continues growing
The cupboard that she was inside
Is now inside her

And she grows bigger bigger bigger
Now the room is inside her
And the house and the city and the earth
And the world she was in before

The little box remembers her childhood
And by a great longing
She becomes a little box again

Now in the little box
You have the whole world in miniature
You can easily put in a pocket
Easily steal it lose it

Take care of the little box

-Vasko Popa

2008 Jewelry Undertakings

Not my major, but my obsession; and one of my freshman year final projects at RISD.
Thematic elements: religious imagery, femininity/sex, violence/death; often juxtaposed in a single piece.