From beginning to now

We started by working with ink blobs the first day of class- we looked at slides and drew them, trying to see images abstractly and a little more freely. Then we did story boards in ink of past memories. My favorite of mine was basically a blob that looked like my sister's bean bag chair because I was remembering how much I used to love to sit in it and watch her do her homework when I was in middle school. The blob was really simple but I liked the pattern it made. Then we wrote down our memories that we had illustrated and picked specific words from the story to illustrate. This was hard for me. Since then we've been altering photocopied images and postcards. I have found in most of mine that I make situations ambiguous by covering up specific spots and leaving other spots untouched so that the narrative in the image is unclear. This may turn into a theme in my midterm...

The work has been a lot more free-form and self exploratory than at WashU. It kind of threw me off in the beginning and I didn't know how to think about it, but I'm getting used to the structure.