More Sketchbook Pages, Mostly Done While Taking Notes In Class. 

Caela by Liturgy

72"x13.5", synthetic and natural fibers, vinyl tubing, 2024

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This piece came about as an attempt to visually depict how I experience music. Possibly due to my Autism, I do not seem to listen to/experience music the way other people I have discussed this topic with experience music. I recognize that there is an underlying meter, a rhythm, a beat, that allows a person to "follow the music;" the beat is also what people follow when they dance. I can force myself to identify and follow a beat, but it requires significant concentration on my part, is not what comes naturally to me, and is not how I enjoy listening to music. My attention often skips back and forth between different sounds, following the bass sounds for several moments because I enjoy that specific section, then switching focus to the crescendo of a violin, to the sound of the singer's voice, the drums, back to violin, bass, voice, a new sound.

By connecting colors, patterns, and material to specific aspects of a musical piece, I have attempted to create a depiction of my experience of the music.

(I also decided to leave the edges of the different photos I took, to give an impression of the number of images needed to create a decent representation of this weaving.)

I’m considering this done. Just needs a coat of varnish.

Another painting in progress

My ongoing wall collage, pages from "Emergence," and a weaving I did. I'm interested in doing more fabric art in the future...

More warm up contour drawings

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Scarf for my boyfriend.

So if you go to grad school for art therapy, you may end up taking a ferry out to an island to visit an aged psychoanalytic art therapist and present her with drawings of serial killers in exchange for her wisdom.

That's what I will be doing with my Saturday!

I'm giving her a picture of Jeffrey Dahmer and if the trip turns out to be some sort of elaborate murder mystery, please avenge my death.

Also, a collage piece about Edith Kramer and Margaret Naumburg, two early art therapists.

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@staff

these are all of the posts that I just sent in appeals for. I received NO email notification that they had been flagged and NONE of them showed up in my “review flagged posts” section.

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Todays progress

doing some painting

Practicing putting down color/shadow before putting down line – which is the exact opposite of how I normally work.

Not the worst thing I’ve ever drawn.

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