Saturday, July 31, 2010

Metaphorical Mind Map

This map came as a result of my Hollow of the Restless project earlier in the semester which I posted on here a while ago. The map is made up of fantastic places but the places also represent a person's possible state of mind at points in their life. There are the moving mountains, that move literally because they have feet but they also represent a moving or especially critical time in a person's life. There are the depths of depression, the rock of reason, the sea of illusion, the lake of lost things, the mist of memory, the plains of perpetual growth, and the peak of enlightenment, not to mention the forest of entangled thought. It was lots of fun to not only make but think about the places and their metaphorical meanings.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

More Paintings...

This brightly colored collage is my painting final. I think the colors pop great and the imagery paired with the personal symbolism produced a result I'm pretty satisfied with.

Paintings...

These are my first attempts at officially painting for my class second semester. Paul Jeanes is a fabulous teacher who makes you want to "Paint like Cave men" as he calls it. I got really absorbed in painting and found that the medium is wonderfully satisfying to work with.