My Work
Drawing
The following drawings range from final pieces, such as the first drawing of the Davis Museum, to sketches and experiments, such as the drawing of the jar and dish soap. I enjoy exploring the variety of different markings you can make with a pencil to convey different textures and moods.
Drawing, Painting, and Prints
The following works are done on a variety of mediums, including pencil & paper, oil paint, watercolour, and linoleum prints.
One of the most special painting projects for me was my final painting project in university, which I put on display in the Senior Art Show in university. In this work, I was inspired by my Maths Honours Thesis on Artinian Rings, and recreated the graphs that I was researching. The description of the project can be found below:
“Over this past year, I have been working on a thesis in math where I have been categorizing zero-divisor graphs. This categorization of zero-divisor graphs allows one to visually represent underlying algebraic properties using graph theoretic properties. In this project, I pushed this visual representation using the different background colours of each of the canvases to correspond to different types of Artinian rings represented in the zero-divisor graphs. The black canvases correspond to fields, the dark blue canvases correspond to the direct product of fields with fields, the medium blue canvases correspond to the direct products of fields with local rings, the light blue canvases correspond to the direct product of local rings with local rings, and the white canvases correspond to local rings. I also have visually grouped together the zero-divisor graphs that represent similar forms of Artinian rings. The viewer can then follow the algorithms provided in the paper on the pedestal to determine the possible Artinian rings corresponding to each of the zero-divisor graphs.
This project was inspired by the relationship between mathematics and studio art that has been explored for years. Starting with the golden triangle, present in both Greek architecture and Renaissance paintings, mathematics was used to discover the most aesthetically pleasing composition. Contemporary artists, such as Escher and Sol Lewitt, have been using math in relation to their art. Escher explored geometric shapes and space, and Sol Lewitt explored geometric, permutations, and fractions. This project was my exploration of the correspondence between art and math.”
In university, I also tried out different mediums, including printmaking, photography, and sculpture.
Printmaking
The following images are from my final project for my printmaking class. A description of the project can be found below:
“Students across Wellesley's campus post on Yik Yak, a social media app that allows people to anonymously create and view discussion threads within a 5-mile radius. All users have the ability to contribute to the stream by writing, responding, and "voting up" or "voting down" (liking or disliking) yaks, and the feed refreshes every 12 hours. How does the lack of ownership and authorship of the posts affect Wellesley's community? In response to this question, I created an installation last semester that turned these “Yaks” into printed matter and encouraged people to physically engage with them.
In this installation, I explored themes of anonymity, originality, temporality, morality, and community.”
I created the following book during the process of creating the project above. I wanted to explore different mediums, but ultimately decided that a more public installation was more appropriate for the project.
Sculpture
The first image below is of my Sculpture class with our cardboard replications of everyday objects. Mine was the corkscrew! The second set of images are from a sculpture project where I explored the concepts of attention span and distractions. The last photo is a sculpture of an apple - photographed in the Big Apple!
Photography
Below are some of my photography projects form university. The first set of images are photos of friends at spots in campus where they felt most comfortable. The second series of photographs were in response to an assignment on “capturing time”. I went to Princeton Junction station before, during, and after the commuter rush to capture these images.
