Tell Me About Yourself
1. Tell Me About Yourself
2. Digital Series 3. Watercolor Series
4. Analog + Digital Studies
5. Accolades
Tell Me About Yourself is a self-reflection body of work exploring deep personal emotions expressed only through a constrained palette of color, geometric shapes, and a similar compositional base point. The goal of the work is to explore how small compositional changes, orientation of shape, and change in color can begin to express vastly different feelings or attitudes.
The work is largely informed by Adrian Frutiger’s observations of the basic geometric signs in Signs and Symbols, Their Design and Meaning. All of the compositions are created through the use of a grid, but the process in which the design takes shape is generated purely in the moment and is improvisational. Nearly as much time is spent looking and analyzing as is making. Each piece has been titled by number rather than by name to better allow the viewer to experience what emotions the shapes and colors individually pull forth within themselves.
The work is largely informed by Adrian Frutiger’s observations of the basic geometric signs in Signs and Symbols, Their Design and Meaning. All of the compositions are created through the use of a grid, but the process in which the design takes shape is generated purely in the moment and is improvisational. Nearly as much time is spent looking and analyzing as is making. Each piece has been titled by number rather than by name to better allow the viewer to experience what emotions the shapes and colors individually pull forth within themselves.
Tell Me About Yourself
Compositions 01 – 06
Digital Series
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05
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06
06
Watercolor Series
Each of the digital compositions were recreated in an analog format for an artist showcase at Creatives at Work in the spring of 2023.
Install at Creative ExchangePhotography: Emerald McIntyre
Watercolor, Ink, Collaged Paper
2023
Analog + Digital Studies
Several additional compositions were created by combining analog and digital processes. I would begin by creating watercolor and ink textures, scanning the materials, and then layering the textures with digital shapes and forms to create abstract compositions. These compositions demonstrate a unique interplay between happenstance (the analog process) and rigorous underlying connective structure (the digital process).
Analog + Digital Study 04, 05
A textural element that I began exploring involved using a security roller stamp. This rolling stamp features scrambled letters and is typically used to obscure personal information on printed documents or packages. This textural element plays into the fact that these compositions come from a deeply personal place— yet the true meaning behind the work is never fully revealed or understood by the viewer.
Analog + Digital Study 03
Analog + Digital Study: Connections
Analog + Digital Study: TempoAccolades
Compositions 04 and 05 (digital versions) were published in Communication Arts, Annual Student Showcase Print Issue for March/April 2023.
2023 March/April Communication Arts Feature