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In the end, I want to make this recap about my experiences with the studio visits as well as my experiences with how senior seminar has changed my own view on my arts. The best part about senior seminar has been changing my art as well as really homing into what I relate to. I found out that I really relate to video games and the way that they relate to my art, as well as my interests are simply what I am interested in at the time. In the end, I feel like there are many ways in which my art changes but it all has to do with what I am passionate about, particular in the games I experience and play. 

In the studio visits I’ve had in the previous year, my favorite part has been the descriptions about my artwork. I’ve had comments on how playful and fun my artwork is, and this has made me happy in ways I can’t explain! It is so wonderful to hear that my playful attitude can translate correctly to my artwork. I’ve definitely had my share of more harsh critique and how I need to be able to really hone into what I enjoy and how it relates to my artwork. I definitely think that I still have alot more self reflection to do on my artwork, and I know that I still need to be able to explain why I make the choices that I do. I know that I often have more intuitive reasons to why I create the things I do! I really enjoyed all the visiting artists and how they visited the studios and added more to my practice. In the end, I feel my studio evolved far more thanks to these helpful critiques. 

Search & Rescue Ranger Logs ( 1942, 1943 ) combines a variety of things that I have loved into one cumulative process for my work in senior seminar. It was a way of experimenting with the concepts I have enjoyed such as multidimensional portals, different parts of national parks as well as the unique feeling of experiencing the beautiful and otherworldly. My favorite part of creating Search & Rescue Ranger Logs was emphasizing the beauty of the natural world but also focusing on the unique occult that can occur when messing with evil spirits. 

Search & Rescue Ranger Logs has a focus on the idea of what will happen if we disrupt evil spirits in monumental spaces. The inspiration is directly from Claire Hummel’s sketches of the Bryce Canyon as well as pulling from the history of the national parks within Utah. My favorite part about crafting this world is looking for references of the parks and learning how to properly illustrate and create sedimentary rock, or the illusion of sedimentary rock. With the help of observing Claire Hummel’s work in national parks within the Utah area, this helped me get a more solid idea of how to properly illustrate the world I wanted to create. 

Search and Ranger Rescue Logs observes my favorite part about a set of illustrations, which is to create the feeling of a journey through a series of images. I liked the idea of having a series of events occurring from 1942 to 1943, giving the world a feeling of an event that has not only passed, but acts as a recreation of history. To add my little logs to my instillation adds a story behind them, and ends up being an addition to the story of the search logs if you see the instillation in person. 

A major part of my instillation was also the ability to come and view my works to be able to take home a copy of the smaller print versions. What was also really great was to be able to distribute these prints and to be able to share my story with other people! I found it really great to be able to learn about new places and stories about a United States region I had never seen but also being able to research a new place! I found my experiences in senior seminar really enjoyable and I felt that this really was a accumulation of the things that I was interested in into one place. 

I Am Sorry For Your Loss is a way of processing grief into a digital format in multimedia. To be able to make multiple posts about subtle hints of grief, to not directly relate to certain topics. The different parts of the posts are the multimedia links that often point to other places on the web, as well as learning more about different kinds of resources to grief.

I Am Sorry For Your Loss is a place that isn’t a way for people to find their own grief, it is a way for me to selfishly air my own grief. It is a way for me to air my own loss, grief and trauma in a way that acts more like a journal rather than an art project for the viewer. I have used this as a way to deal with conflicting feelings rather than to deal with the reality of the situation.

I have really enjoyed exploring different feelings and thoughts in a way that was more subtle rather than direct. I also enjoyed the ability to act more as a thought process for myself rather than just some art project to be able to fulfill a criteria. It gave me a great outlet to explore multimedia creation and I found that there were parts of the project that I found myself enjoying and parts that I didn’t enjoy. In the end, I wish I had more time to explore so much more.

Sometimes you just really need to draw a Mario pattern and that is exactly what this is. I wanted to create a repeating Mario pattern just for the fun of it, and in the end I really like what I came up with. This was heavily inspired by Mario Odyssey, due to my enjoyment in the game itself. I really enjoyed the different enemies that you could encounter and this was my way of paying homage to the different sort of things that you could encounter within the small Mario universe.

This was created in my free time due to the large amount of inspiration I had pulled from playing Mario in my spare time. It’s a dedication to how unique and interesting some of these designs are, and not really about anything else. I don’t really want to believe that I had more of an intent than just to enjoy myself and make something really fun and cute for fun and try out how to create these repeating patterns!

All the Outs in Free was part of an experiment in translating what an experience meant to me. To do this, I looked into the story of Oxenfree, the exploration of a haunted historical site that teems with the occult. This also begins my exploration into portals into other worlds, the study of nature and how things can often disrupt the intent of natural things. My favorite part about exploring Oxenfree was the concept that we can explore other places through these mysterious happenings. To be able to translate the design of Alex into my own style and to reimagine these scenes was also a joy.

All the Outs in Free is a reimagination of the important events of Oxenfree, my own interpretation of the story itself. Due to how there never really is a perfect ending to the game and it can be replayed multiple times, I took what I found most important from the game and turned it into a dedication to this beautiful game. This really brings me to the thought that, we can often never explain everything that can happen, especially those of the supernatural kind.

In the end, this is reflection of the things that I love to do most. This shows off my prowess in digital art but also shows the topics that I enjoy illustrating as well as the polish I can bring to a single piece of work. This is probably one of my favorite explorations in digital art that I have made and I have looked forward to making more artworks similar to this degree. 

The Trip to Dia Beacon as well as to the several other museums was extremely uplifting in a way that I haven’t felt in quite a while. To be able to take the time and visit museums in the intent to learn more was an experience that I haven’t had in a while. I really enjoyed one of the exhibits in particular that shrouded different neon bars with transparent screens. Sitting in front of that instillation, you can see hints of people walking back and forth, giving an ode to the movement that can happen in a museum.

I really enjoyed the different neon instillation that we encountered as well as anything with the sort of beautiful high color intensity. I particularly was drawn to the green and black based instillation, giving off an old school horror vibe, as well as the different ways that neon was used to illustrate beauty. 

In the end, Dia Beacon was the largest museum as well as the one I was drawn to the most. I found that other museums in New York often felt small and very contained, not giving as much room to roam around. The New Museum also had the same effect of being quite strange to me, having installations that I didn’t click to quite as well.

For the topic of documentation, I believe that it can often be difficult if you tend to like physically writing more and you are required to keep a digital archive. I have recently been documenting in notebooks and (wanting to avoid digital documentation) have been putting off updating my documentation itself. There is such a need to be consistent with tags, formatting and aesthetic that it can often be intimidating. In the end, I believe that there needs to be consistency, in the time posting, in the formatting, in the style as well as the actual content itself.

I believe that there is always a need to delete, rewrite and to recreate entries to clean up the blog itself, to make sure that everything is a clear format. This ends up leading to discomfort. It’s always a work in progress.