Abstract Personalities

ink on paper

Loose Sketch

Post Spring Semester 2009

I've had trouble focusing while abroad, actually cementing what exactly it is that I'm trying to do with my illustrations, almost a thesis for that semester. I was thinking a pin-up like calender, influenced by the fashions that I was surrounded by in Europe, but I didn't go any further than there, and composed sketches.


I was planning on possibly titling "Donde Esta los Ladrones," from the idea of a title from Shakira's Cd, where it was named because a suitcase of her lyrics were stolen at an airport, and I had an experience where my camera was stolen at a club, and that is worse than any amount of money to me, and also, how my heart fluctuated and was captivated by people/things/events... kind of a part of myself lost perhaps, like the carravaggio painting of mine.

The left is called Horse Shoe Dream, is a concept on a found object item, and I basically let my imagination go, from the image of a horse shoe, and it became a 'framed' narrative.



The one right, String Theory, is a take on a difficult idea, creating some readable meaning possible. I let myself go, with inspiration from Dali; creating a world, and some tension, like those two king birds, holding the top, balancing but battling, where an army of birds fill the bottom background.

Sophomore & Junior Year drawing... I wanna draw now...

All images below are charcoal drawings.

Sin dar vuelta

Todavia media pagada con la silla

Tio Radames with El Divino Nino Jesus (Drawn entirely from photograph)

Papi fell Asleep

Hat Self Portrait

He smelled like fresh laundry

Spirit

Me siento un chin gorda hoy