2D Works
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Assorted Projects
2022
Sketchbook Pages
Figure Drawings in Charcoal
2021
An Hourglass of Dune
2020
18inx 24in
Graphite on Paper
I n this piece, I sought to learn more about perspective, not just in the sense of learning how to use this concept of art, but also in the sense of what perspective means in the human perception of time. I drew my inspirations concerning the philosophy of time from the novel Dune by Frank Herbert. I tried to utilize linear perspective to illustrate how time flows: what is built, whether it be architecture, civilizations , or a life, they all will recede, forward and perplexedly, to a vanishing point, an unknown. Just as the protagonist in Dune sees time tangibly as a great cloth rippling infinitely, moving as desert dunes do, I saw the buildings of time slipping into ruins. I envisioned a peak behind the curtain of the moving sands of time which revealed one ruin in a balanced composition with the rest of time, connected in mysterious ways, and falling apart into eternity.
“Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.”
-Frank Herbert
Graphite and Ink Drawings
2020
Blue Bird
2019
9in x 6.25
Acrylic on Paper
The idea behind the monochromatic color scheme was that I tend to think of birds as having boisterous, twittering colors, and here I wanted the isolate the blue to sing the melancholy of a bird alone. The pose of the bird was also essential to me in the composition; I view loneliness and even sadness to be crucial and powerful in the human experience, but it can be predatory to the things that can bring happiness.
