MFA visual work
University-driven Themester topic, Remembering and Forgetting
screenprinting research
Cherished, THESIS EXHIBITION
The exhibition Cherished invites the viewer to consider how we as humans arrange material things to create meaning. I evoke memories, people, and feelings by creating domestic inspired patterns from my own cherished things and spaces.
Tracing photographs of each scene became a necessary meditation for depicting each illustration, the chosen style presenting a playful and honest window into the resonant power of everyday spaces. This exhibition also became an invitation for others to share their own cherished things and memories. The result of this is presented in book form. The books act as small windows. When closed, the books share reflections of things and the memories associated. Opened, the panels of rumination frame illustrations focused on inspiring real looking; the scale of each illustration may feel crowded at first, but the invitation to peer inside welcomes the viewer to instead freely look closer to unpack the details.
Sitting at the conjunction of mindfulness and human connection, the exhibition is a celebration of the practice that we as humans cultivate with our personal evocative treasures. By bringing together the cherished things that inspire or soothe, this work addresses how beauty, transformation, and peaceful self–reflection may be seen as part of the everyday.
Tracing photographs of each scene became a necessary meditation for depicting each illustration, the chosen style presenting a playful and honest window into the resonant power of everyday spaces. This exhibition also became an invitation for others to share their own cherished things and memories. The result of this is presented in book form. The books act as small windows. When closed, the books share reflections of things and the memories associated. Opened, the panels of rumination frame illustrations focused on inspiring real looking; the scale of each illustration may feel crowded at first, but the invitation to peer inside welcomes the viewer to instead freely look closer to unpack the details.
Sitting at the conjunction of mindfulness and human connection, the exhibition is a celebration of the practice that we as humans cultivate with our personal evocative treasures. By bringing together the cherished things that inspire or soothe, this work addresses how beauty, transformation, and peaceful self–reflection may be seen as part of the everyday.
