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THESIS: Tiny Mythologies

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" T I N Y MY T HO L O GI E S " S E N I O R T H E S I S S H O W ! ! ! My thesis is a load of color laundry done on cold, and somewhere along in the cycle the colors somehow bled into each other because I accidentally left a paint marker in the pocket of my jeans.  “ The less we know about it the better, we’ll make it up as we go along.” One of my favorite songs of this year by the Talking Heads, This Must Be The Place sums up what I have learned about life so far. It really stuck with me as I began drowning in work I didn’t even know I could drown in: No, Eva is not miserable, but maybe my alter-ego Walter is so Eva doesn’t have to be. Through selected memories of my childhood spent as a youngest sister to how I carry myself now, these “tiny mythologies” are stories I tell myself to make sense of the bigger picture and my place in the world. As I start to become my own person in the world instead of the aforementioned youngest sister, a projected alter-ego, a student ...
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THESIS: ZINES

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These collection of zines (see ' Boundless ' post) serve as an additional "artist's statement" for my thesis. Needs a better cover photo.  This first zine explores a question of a stage in creativity that I think is related to everyone.  Based off of times where I have been in such a mental state that I think everything I make is bad, even though I never finish it. I experimented with poetry and wording with the typewriter that I hope to explore in the next zines that I make. The idea behind these is that the message is more prominent through the typography rather than the quality that it is made of.   I have done a couple zines during my time at Peddie, and I always have felt they have translated my artistry well. For the specific zine I made for thesis 4, “why can’t i make good art?” ending with the statement “because it needs to be a little bad” felt like a question I really needed to ask myself at that moment. I had a different plan in mind for the zine initia...
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Thesis 5: Drag in Weird Places (Walter)

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Thesis: Drag in Weird Places / Tiny Mythologies  various cameras, friends, a couple rounds of raiding my sister’s closet, fear  Clothes mis-matched, makeup deliberately smudged, hair gelled to my scalp weird, Walter is both a character and a chance for me, Eva, to be weird without consequences.  Walter is a vessel I get to pour the ridiculousness in me into, without a sieve to catch all the extra fallen pieces. These series of photos and videos span across months of both very strategic and planned shoots on weekends to random school nights where I threw on red lipstick after getting home at 11PM from Honors Theatre performances and sat in my bathtub willing my mighty iPhone to have more storage.  Series shot on Polaroid Oneshot with SX70 film, digital, disposable, and film camera, and iPhone  ...or weird drag in normal places? Walter in Weird Places?  This project is intended to show my alter-ego, Walter, existing in worlds miserably, but stoic as he naviga...
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Thesis 2

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 Thesis 2: Honors Studio  February 17, 2025 (Progress Update: March 19, 2025 & May 20, 2025)  cheesecloth, wool, acrylic paint, spray paint, beads, dye, wire, yarn, glue, stamps, clay, wire mesh  My biggest weakness is negligence in taking care of myself. The smaller figures born from mouths, embrace each other in an infinite circle, gaping at each other, as to ask themselves how they even got into this situation in the first place. This piece explores a phrase recurring in my brain that I saw in Greer Lankton's MoMA installation: "I swear to become my body (1977)." Because my thesis explores all the ways and the ways I limit myself when I could be expressive, this piece is meant to be a vessel for the mind through the entwining bodies, becoming unbound by inhibiting yourself, looking for a way out in other people even though the only solution is to grab hold of your own person first. My brain is a bus station and I limit myself to what I think I can do.  In...
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Thesis 1 (Revision Spring 2025)

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 Thesis 1  February 5, 2025 (Updated May 20, 2025)  I transformed this piece and my Childhood memory piece to be one for my studio art show.  This time, the shopping cart sits cocooned in on itself, and I return to this piece from the fall with a little bit more urgency–the environment I am hiding from decides itself, but the shopping cart is my little bit of safety in an art show that has been both my worst fear and exhilarating to put on.  Borrowing from my Thesis 2, this rendition of the Harp Lesson remains true to its meaning from Winter term. In the shopping cart, I felt safe. On my grandmother’s couch eating blueberries waiting for my sister Clara to be done with her lesson, I also felt safe. Walter drives the addition to this piece, hunched over a typewriter, and writes diary entries on pieces of paper which he then adds as decoration to his shelter. Getting to dress up and take pictures is one accomplishment, but the protection of the shopping cart makes...
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MoMA Trip January 2025

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January 23, 2025 Winter Arts Trip  As a class, we were assigned to choose pieces to sketch that caught our eye in some way being that it relate to our thesis. During my day spent at the Museum of Modern Art, I chose a favorite detail from each piece that held my atention and sketched it alongside writing the artist's name and title of the piece. Some have more detail or extra annotation while others do not because of the lack of artist statement.  Today I also learned from a very nice museum staff member that Matisse's first iteration of Dance in 1909 originally had a sixth dancer. The dancer's form proved to be stiff and not allowing the piece to freely flow, as of which it is now famous for. If you look at the lower left corner, on the grass is the outline of a calf, and if you follow it, you can faintly see the dancer's arm in the painted dancer's thigh.  Cadence -- Otobong Nkanga  First impression of Cadence.  Sketch of museum-goers from above the Cadence i...
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