Howl's Moving Castle Teaser Poster

A continuation of my Art & Film project. Really bored and having some fun.

This was my first family reunion ever. 

It was like meeting a party full of weirdos that I was supposed to love immediately. 

I think it went well enough though. 

One of my favorite parts was seeing the photos from previous reunions, as well as random pictures of family members from long ago. It was all very illuminating. This first photo was without a doubt my favorite. So stylin'. Love those fur coats.

And here we are now. I personally think photos used to look so much more badass back in the day... 

Art Time

Art Time!

Got into Small Favors VIII a National juried exhibition in Philadelphia, PA!

Juried by Julie Moon, Michael Fujita, and Hiroe Hanazomo    

Appalachian Trail

Here we come.

Thesis in Review

Finally, I'm finished editing all those pictures! There were so many to shuffle through it was exhausting.

Artist's Statement:

Secrets.

Painful, shameful, humiliating: these memories shape us more than we know.

They help define us in ways we hardly realize.

But what do we hide behind, how do we cope?

Addiction, depression, obsession, compulsion, anger… We all use something.

We hide the ugly behind thick walls.

I wanted desperately to be someone else. To erase the person I was; the one who wasn’t good enough.

But we cannot erase. We can only hide, only avoid, only numb.

Our secrets are still there. We have only to look through the cracks to know it’s true.

Thanks to everyone who went to the show! Hope you enjoyed! 

Last Day of Class… Ever (Kinda)

Just had my very last class of college ever. Undergrad at least, I have every intention of going back to school for my MFA.

I've been horribly depressed about the whole leaving school thing, and the leaving all my friends thing, and the moving back home thing, but somehow I've managed to get everything done. Now, if none of my teachers fail me, I'll be walking this Saturday!

Anyway, I thought I'd share what I did for my Art & Film final. Nothing fancy, but I made teaser posters for Hayao Miyazaki films. If you haven't seen any of them, you need to change that pronto.