Grad Project - Identity

Well, so far so good! The school year is four weeks deep and - knock on wood - it's been as awesome as I anticipated! Ideally I'll have some work from the kiddies up soon, but since I only see each class once a week projects tend to be a slow process.

Instead, I'll entertain you with my Graduate project! This semester I have to complete three projects around a theme. The first theme was Identity, and I took it very literally. To be fair, I ended up a week behind because I, uh, accidentally signed up for a thesis class and went to that class the first week. Whoops! Needless to say I was a bit over my head. There will be no thesis for at least a year!

Anyways, I created a three-piece Identity project that very literally portrays me in three different scenarios.

1) Calm contentment. I love clean lines, even spacing, and general tidiness, but there is always some sort of idea or mess creeping in...

2) Sometimes my brain feels maxed out with all my ideas. It gets cluttered pretty easily up in the old noggin'.

3) Panic! There's a mess! Things are scattered! Everything that can go wrong has! Ah!

While spilling and splatting were fun and liberating it certainly isn't my cup of tea, but I still enjoyed the process of this project! For the third piece I actually wound up intentionally ripping a side when I mounted it to really reinforce the "messy" feel. Like I said, it's very literal, but either way I think it conveys my Identity pretty well; even down to the superficial things like my favorite color is purple!

Enjoy!

<3 Kate