Firmas (Signatures)

I play lots of games (in my head & with others) when I visit museums. There's one game, "Zoom In Until You Get Yelled At," that I often share with others so we can play together (see "Art Games" in my Instagram story highlights!). But I have NEVER shared my favorite game with anyone: Find The Signature.

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Still Life Portraits

A still life portrait is a still life in which every object is used to make up a symbolic portrait of a person (or a couple, or a family, etc.). I see this as a play on the still lifes of the Dutch Golden Age & the Vanitas movement, but I want to modernize it. Rather than using these still lifes to communicate the transience of life, I want to use it as a way to…

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CAMINO OSCURO

Every journey has a beginning, middle, & end. And the really good ones also have detours, and growing pains, and reversals, because no journey worth having is clearly mapped out.

Well, this was a REALLY good journey, and below I walk you through it with an explanation of where I was in the journey at each piece, and how I view them now looking back.

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