Exploring Space 

This project prompted me to look at the places and spaces around me as fodder for inspiration. Instead of letting environments surprise me, I started searching. 

One peripheral environment transformed before me.

Six days a week my life takes place among peers and professors. But Friday I spend my mornings and afternoons babysitting a two year-old at the polo club. It's a detachment for me mentally and physically. A different kind of exhaustion. And making art transforms from my Major discipline to my strategic for whiling away time with the little one.

Time flits by when I focus his attention through tactile, mark-making means. And it distills as I take him on a walk him in and around the condo complex. It reminds me of a maze; strolling through angular footpaths, getting lost in my thoughts. Apartness quiets the week's incessant mental checklist. It's a meditative place. It feels a bit like I'm Alice slipping down the rabbit hole. Birds of paradise, children's games, storybooks, winding pathways.. the details give it a dreamy quality.

Stage 1: Documenting the details with photos.

Stage 2: Transposing the photos onto transparencies. 

Overlapping transparent ink drawings reinterprets the space further. It focuses my mind once more on this place, this time through line. A different sensory experience. 

Stage 3: Convergence.

Pathways become dominant and the act of strolling down them becomes the narrative for my arrangement.

Stage 4: Installation.

The class critique traveled just outside the room to the shadowy-purple wall by the stone stairs. The stand-in for the stucco steps I'd toddle the two-year up. The purple offsets the yellow tones of the board nicely as well. I like playing the opposites together. Just like the linear architecture and curvilinear designs on Fridays.