Getting to work.

Getting to work often means missing school for me. I started working on my paintings (watercolor paintings to be specific) for my spring Gallery night show this coming April 16th and 17th in the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design's student union gallery. Images one and two are my in progress images and the final is a 90% complete piece. Touch ups needed in certain areas and a little more contrast building.

I'm Only Human

There is often no good way to say what you really want and often times letting go is the only option. Growing up and growing apart are the two most difficult things two people can really do together. You find yourself saying all the wrong things with all the right intentions. You know how much you love somebody, but you what you don't know is how much more you love yourself. Whether you are entangled in a constant battle with a lover or a friend, you are fighting to separate yourself and to become an individual.

Spending a decade with one person can make you lose your sense of self. You start to forget who you really were in the first place, and at the age of ten what do you really know about yourself? When you're that young you're becoming who you are going to be permanently. With another person attached to your hip, how are you supposed to figure that out? You let it go. You become an individual.

Having spent the past twelve months weaving in and out of relationships and taking the biggest step in separating from the one person I could call home, I have finally found the dire need to become and be and live as an individual with my own priorities and goals, needs and wants. Out of the realizations comes these pieces based on past relationships, successful and failed, that take a look back on the recent and not so recent turmoils of finding out what you really should be doing. Through the use of watercolor, drawing, and the collecting of exchanged words and memories, I have compiled a collection of memories that I find familiar. I am giving these memories to viewers in hopes that they will find some familiarity with the pieces in their own lives. I am letting go of the memories for someone else to take. Nobody's perfect and there is certainly always room for error, because after all we are only human.

Image for "separation, frustration" taken by Emilia Olsen and saved on hard drive since 09/2009.