Week 2

So classes have started. We've gotten into the semester pretty quickly, and the last week or so was spent on our "gathering" project. It was a really nice opportunity to get to explore the city a little more, and document some of the interesting things i found. Through this process, and our in-class exercises where we narrowed down our findings, I found that I am really interested in the bizarre and things that are not entirely what they seem. I became really obsessed with the freakishly small cars here, as with the unique vegetation. In my ink drawings, I played with the perception of such topics through the use of distorted size (for the cars) and morphing the trees into weird creatures (a variation on a theme which seems to have begun during my freshman year). Anyway, can't wait to see what Florence has in store for me next.

~ Rachel Cunningham

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