"Balancing Act" 2013

I did this piece as sort of a surrealist approach to my work. I am intrigued by the reality of imagination in surrealism. I suppose if I was to tag this piece with some concept it would be that balancing act we all walk in relationships between honesty and compassion, self-sacrifice and self-respect.

"Cut Her Out in Little Stars" 2013

I have this twisted obsession with tragic love stories. The title of this piece is based on a quote from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 
“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.” 

This piece illustrates my the lyrics to my favorite song Remembering Sunday Remembering Sunday. The lyrics tell the story of a boy looking for a prostitute he fell in love with after one night. He goes from house to house with her photo, trying to find her, haunted by her memory. The song ends with a girl singing an apology for leaving him by suicide. 

The backdrop for these illustrations are the pages of a short story written by O. Henry, The Furnished Room. In this story O. Henry tells of a boy looking for an actress he fell in love with in Greenwich Village. He goes from apartment to apartment in search of her. In the last room he stays in he looses his grip on sanity because he can sense and smell her everywhere. He kills himself. The story ends with the hotel owner discussing how odd two suicides should occur in the same room two nights in a row. The boy's love had killed herself in the same room the day before.

The Shakespeare quote seemed to pinpoint this idea of being surrounded by a love and unable to obtain it. My style drew from Roy Lichtenstein's work.

Junction Experience: Project 5

This is a collaborative piece. My partner did everything in black and white. I did everything in color.

Junction Experience: Project 4

I felt this poster was way too fitting to not be a self-portrait. Lets sum up the similarities:

1. Short blonde hair.

2. Slender

3. Flapper at heart

4. Approaching graduation

5. She's lighting her cigarette with her diploma. Awesome.

This piece is ink and acrylic paint on velum.

Junction Experience: Project 3

My attempted at the balance between abstraction and reality...

Junction Experience: Project 2

I worked about 12 hours straight on this painting. It was worth it though. Ive always wanted to study the way light plays on water.

Junction Experience: Project 1