Use Your Words
Use Your Words
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My BFA Thesis show synthesizes the child and the current self. It explores themes of growth, play, and conditioning, and it encourages interactivity between the viewer and the artwork. This show was featured in the Marxhausen Gallery of Art in Spring 2025.
Oh, Grow Up!
Oh, Grow Up!
Cotton quilt squares
This quilt topper measures 8 x 10 feet and features symbols representing different aspects of human growth and development. The symbols on the outside represent the senses through which we experience and process the world, and the symbols inside the house represent milestones mostly based on Erikson's Stages of Psychological Development.
Betty Wants a Hug
Betty Wants a Hug
Cotton quilt squares, poly-fil
Betty was laid on the floor of the gallery, like a doll a child had stopped playing with. Viewers were welcome to hug Betty, but I did not include any explicit signage permitting them to. I wanted her presence and title to be enough to compel viewers to embrace her.
Picture Vocab Test
Picture Vocab Test
Digital Interactive Media, Acetone Rubbings
This piece was modelled after the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, which measures children's vocabulary on the basis of how many images they can correctly identify based on a prompt. These are some of the slides (minus the audio) I included on a DVD that allowed viewers to select which option correctly matched the prompt. This test, unlike the original, has answers that range from obvious to absurd, and some with more than one "correct" answer.
Proto-dollhouse
Proto-dollhouse
Wood, paint, fabric dolls
This was not included in the final exhibition but served as exploration for the content of the show.
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