Thus far in my art career I have worked with different media such as charcoal, oil pastel, conte, pencil, oil paint, acrylic paint, ink wash, water color, linoleum prints, and digital media. Currently I am working with oil pastel and digital media to create a series which explores the relationship between paradox and truth. My exploration focuses on fad diets and their absurdities. My oil pastel drawings depict the requirements of the diets while the digital posters mock them. In these drawings, my strengths lie in the composition and color mixing. I worked hard to layer the colors of the oil pastels without making them murky. The compositions are all simple and stark yet they lead the viewer’s eye throughout. Just like the drawings, my digital posters also have simple and stark compositions. In the posters, the text helps the eye flow through the composition.

The work of both Jasper Johns and Barbara Krueger has influenced my own work. From Johns’ work I have learned to use text more subtly and color more boldly. In the Every Time cabbage soup drawing, the repetition of the soup cans with the colors of the soup itself mimics Johns’ work. At the same time, I have learned to dramatically use text to raise questions just as Krueger does in her work. In the red and black Banana Blank piece, I used the same colors that Krueger uses in many of her works.

In my future works, I want to continue my experimentation with different types of medium and different compositional layouts.