Emily

This Already Happened
Mixed Media on wood panel 2010

This is one of three paintings/drawings I did for a two-person show back in June 2010.
My friend Emily was cool enough with me using her as one of my figures. I remember being so stuck after my senior show/work was done in the beginning of my last quarter of school. I spent a couple of weeks not knowing what I was going to make for this huge show in a few months. And one day I just came up with this idea of homes.

Living in a small house with my best friend had a big influence on these pieces. Up until that point, for the last three years I lived on campus and if I wasn't living on campus, I was living right by campus so I felt like I was always around people that were my age, college kids.

Living away from my school with Xavier in a small house on a dead end was such a nice transition. Walking, biking, skating to work and school gave me the chance to see a much wider demographic of people. I saw old people, really young kids, families, all these people that I wasn't really around that often.

I started to think, how do these lifestyles, our guardians, our homes affect us as people and how much weight do we carry with us from our past, from our present. How do these lives shape us into who we are, what we believe in, our morals, and how we treat others and ourselves.