Meredith Nelson

Work this week is going well, by Thursday I should have something coherent to show to the class. I've scaled down the size of my drawings, so they're a bit more intimate. It's easier this way to play with the arrangement of objects in space and how they relate back to each other. Drawing lots of pictures of flowers with ink and watercolor, it starts to get difficult keeping my work from becoming kind of girly. I think I'm making progress, and I'm pretty happy with the drawings that are coming out of this, although honestly I can't see this project going much further. I think when I come back from spring break I think I'd like to find a new idea or direction to focus on. It's been frustrating over the past few weeks trying to reconcile my interest in the physical forms- plants, biological materials, things tied together, clusters, etc. with any kind of overarching theme or concept. I've been using the materials I already have as a jumping off point for looking at ideas of things growing apart, distance and seperation and the tension between this and how organisms relate to each other.