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I ended up not using my other collages and went in a different direction.  This artwork focuses on Jane Goodall and her efforts to help study and save Chimpanzees. She is also an advocate for conservation and saving the environment. The landscape is of the Gombe National Park in Tanzania where she did her research starting at the age of 26. The style of the landscape plate is based on the artist Matthew Rangel because he illustrates landscapes and topography maps in his artwork. I tried when carving Jane to carve the mouth with a downward cut to make it kind of seem like the technique I would do if I was carving a chimpanzee's mouth. With the smaller elements and text, I wanted to relate it back to conservation and Jane Goodall.

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Originally when seeing the title of the assignment, I wasn’t exactly sure what I would have to do. The Radio Lab discussion was all about rules, chess, and Bobby Fischer. I found this story of Bobby Fischer very interesting. I will never look at the game chess the same way. For this assignment, the first part is to draw Bobby and then write down five aspects you remember about the recording. The second part requires you to create lists and choose specific words and use them to create rules for you to use to create 3-4 drawings. My Rules: You Must…. 1) Draw with a pen or pencil to draw the main subject. 2) Make the drawing mostly black and white with a splash of the colors red, blue, yellow, or green. 3) Draw elements from nature(flora/fauna.) 4) A length of a random song dictates how long you draw the main subject

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These aren’t the best collagraph prints, but I hope to continue the concept in future prints and or in my other artwork. The meaning and imagery is the same of trying to preserve nature and the many cultures of the world. I also added elements of my life, such as the lotus because I recently made a sculpture with one and the lotus is referenced in many cultures. I also added the petroglyphs and the Zia to represent New Mexico and past cultures. I also added a design based off a fossil of a shell in a piece of rock I found. I have a close up of a pattern on coral. I included a palm frond and a jasmine flower to represent the house I grew up in.

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This is the sketchbook assignment that is about the artist Emilie Gossiaux, and her story. The questions I would have for Emilie would be if she was okay with it to see her in action when she is making her artwork? I would ask if I could try the glasses she wears, so I can see and feel the way she does through them. I would ask which art Highschool in Florida did she go to? And lastly,  I would ask if she is still with Alan? Another artist that I heard is blind is John Bramblitt. Being a sculpture major, touch is very important when molding or working within space to create something three dimensional. 

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The prints that I have made are inspired by the multiple cultures that I have learned about, as well as some pieces of art and jewelry that a family member collected on her trips around the world. In a lot of my prints I used earthy tones with red to resemble the cave paintings and petroglyphs. I also used blue tones such as turquoise to represent the blue doors and turquoise jewelry that is around New Mexico. My mother and her side of the family is from New Mexico and the houses are also the earthy tan color. I also wanted to include the fossils and imagery of plants and animals that are found in rock and sediment over time. I find the preservation of not only plants and animals, but also the cultures of humans to be very interesting and important. While these prints didn’t come out completely like I planned, I would still like to continue these concepts in future work.

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I am going to redo this, but this is for an assignment to make an abstract collagraph plate to print.

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Frottage experiments with graphite.

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When completing this assignment, I did not expect to write about my dad's truck and our family trip from years ago. It was actually nice to reminisce and forget about what is happening around the world now.  I was pretty young when my family took this trip and wasn't as aware of all the problems in society or didn't know how bad it was. As the saying goes "ignorance is bliss".  I liked writing about it and asking my dad some of the details that I had forgotten.

I can't remember the exact last time I wrote a story.  I never got into journaling or writing because honestly, I didn't want to do more work that felt like school. I think I tried to write a story about a mermaid once when I was really young, but I never finished it.

As I said above, I liked remembering the times when I was young and was with my family taking a trip through the mountains. Reliving the experience was nice to forget about the stress that comes from getting older and everything that is happening now.  My family used to camp and spend a lot of time in nature, so once we are on a break, I hope to go camping again!

The first part of just taking notes about and starting to answer the questions was nice because you didn't have to really think about grammar and other things, you were just jotting down ideas. And being able to use those notes as a guide for my somewhat refined story helped a lot.  If I continue to write stories about my life, my artwork, or other random topics, I will try to use what I did in this assignment to help sort out the information and how to tell the story.

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These gel prints were done with oil paints, stencils, and stamps. I wanted the elements used to illustrate images with combinations of animals, meat products, pill bottles spilling the antibiotics, utensils, and diseases such as COVID-19. The reason I wanted to have these elements is that the problem of antibiotic resistance is going to be a real problem. The meat industry feeds the animals antibiotics for unnatural amounts of growth and to make the animals continue to live just long enough to take and sell what they get from them just before they are deemed invaluable and are slaughtered. This is also supposed to highlight the idea of the horrible conditions of this industry. Animals get wounds, diseases, and bacterial infections all the time and the bacteria adapts and mutates gradually, and the antibiotics become ineffective. Globally meat-producing animals are given antibiotics every day of their lives. Doctors also give large amounts of antibiotics to patients. In the US, 80 percent of antibiotics sold are given to the meat industry to fatten up the animals and to protect them from the horrible conditions. The United Nations has stated more common diseases are becoming untreatable, and the World Health Organization says this is one of the biggest threats to global health. If this is not under control by 2050, the worldwide toll will be 10 million deaths a year. The overload of antibiotics fed to animals, which is then consumed by humans, is decreasing the probabilities of curing diseases all over the world. With the ongoing spread of COVID-19, I find this topic very relevant. COVID-19 has been traced to a wet shop(animals are bought alive and or slaughtered in the stores and sold) in Wuhan, China where the disease was transmitted with the contact and consumption of animals. This also brings up the idea of other zoonotic diseases such as the Influenza viruses, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Malaria, the plagues, and many others' impact. I want to go deeper into these topics in the future.