If Nothing Else the Love was There
Senior Show at Knox College

Love is one of those feelings that encompasses you, body and soul. It brings joy, happiness, passion and many artists have used it as a guiding compass, their needle pointing north, for a feeling of direction and happiness. Love is a devotion to someone or something else in the universe, an acknowledgement of your own care. But Love can also be exhausting. For this show I’d like to break down the other, more painful sides of care that we are all familiar with as human beings. Feelings of loss, homesickness, disconnect and compassion fatigue and present them via a series of works of familiar myths and characters. 

I spend much of my time reflecting on the stories I’m familiar with, such as aspects of sci-fi, fantasy and ancient Mediterranean literature, and transferring them to my own work. I want to utilize elements of the fantastical and the mythological to create snapshots of a larger scene yet to unfold. I do this by creating the domestic scenes between people, not characters exactly, but people. 

These works are presented in the form of acrylic paintings, charcoal drawings, watercolor paintings, and lino prints. By employing aspects of observational study storytelling, I am using these storytelling tools to talk about fantastical worlds in ways that we are already familiar with in our own lives. There are paintings of everyday life, and depictions of mythological scenes, but the hope is (that with a few exceptions) you will not be able to tell which is which.