Illustration – patchworks, textures, & clouds
Out of respect and love for the spaces I get to live and work in, a lot of my illustration and design work seeks to archive, document, and souvenir specific places. I am very interested in exploring ways to blend illustration/representativeness with abstraction, to make work that is very much about specific places and moments in time, but in my own impressionistic way.
Lately I am focused on designs that patch together community motifs into tapestry-like compositions: what if a love letter was a quilt, and that quilt was a painting? I challenge myself to consider “place” from every angle (cultural, historical, architectural, biological, microbial, etc.) and stitch together signifiers from portraits to molecular models, topographical views to color gradients, constellations to dance diagrams.
