Rapture
Inspired by American visual artist Julie Mehretu, I used two soft ground zinc plates and overlapped different forms of textural designs. Adopting her mark-making and complex compositional skills I created my own version of her prints. I used many different techniques of line work to produce movement and rhythm.
Rapture, soft ground etching, 2022, 7.5x11
Monterosso
I chose to make a hard-ground watching of two chairs I saw on the streets of Monterosso. I thought that any picture captured in Cinque Terre could look like a postcard because of its natural beauty. These two red chairs stood out to me because they embodied age, partnership, and, romance. Using hard ground for the first time is satisfying because I was able to get so much more detail compared to soft ground. I also added aquatint to get a range of different textures. This method was fun to experiment with and I look forward to using it more in the future. For final touches, I used watercolor to paint the chairs red, which allowed them to stand out with such a busy background.
Monterosso, hard-ground etching, 2022
Linoleum in Italy
Boundaries, Linoleum, 2022, 4.5x8
Ciao, plexiglass etching, 2022, 4.5x7.5
An extraordinary and thrilling experience in a new country for the first time.
Ciao symbolizes the array of emotions I have experienced In Italy thus far. I feel so grateful to be able to study art in Italy and immerse myself in the community of Cortona. I have found that I almost always start a conversation with the word ciao. It represents both a starting point of my exciting journey as a student in Italy and my eagerness to learn more Italian! The wide-eyed and nervous expression on my face is conveying the overwhelming feeling of traveling to a different continent for the first time. I imagine this is what my face appears to be when walking into a store in Italy. The background is an assortment of the beautiful architecture that I have captured in photographs. Ciao evokes the balance of astonishment and anxiety of living life in a new country.
Covid, Meet College
A series of white-line wood cuts describe the unbearable loss of physical contact between friends due to a pandemic.
Circle of Confinement, white-line woodcut, 2021
