2018

In 2018, I worked on advancing my graphic design skills. From my classes at the University of Toronto to my internship at Orbis Canada, I was able to exercise my skills in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. I moved from only I dove into graphic design and discovered my love for it.

TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK OF ME, March 2018

I have always been a very outspoken passionate artist, but in school I found that my fellow peers were rarely giving me as much feedback as I was them. As an artist, people are always critiquing you, whether that be your work or yourself, it is an important part of the practice to be judged by people.

With this piece, I wanted to make a statement about criticism and use a play on words to create a series of artist multiples. The TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK OF ME series is an artist tote bag, postcard and tag designed for artists, and about artists. It is meant to be loud and proud speaking to the detrimental silence of many students in my past class critiques. With its bold lines and full caps font, the bag makes a statement on anyone’s shoulder and (hopefully) piques curiosity and attracts comments.

You Are What You Eat, October 2018

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Money In Money Out, October 2018

Schoenberg, November 2018

This score is taken from the first piece of Arnold Schoenberg’s song cycle Pierrot Lunaire. Mondestrunken, meaning drunk with moonlight, was a piece a friend of mine showed me when explaining the theory of twelve-tone musical composition. To the untrained ear, twelve-tone can sound like an arbitrary combination of dissonant sounds, however it is actually an intricate technique using all 12 notes of the chromatic scale where the composers ensures that the use and emphasis of each note is equal. And although twelve-tone is fairly unpleasant and audacious, it was one of the most influential developments of 20th-century musical composition and is often still used today.

The theory and history of twelve-tone music spoke to me as I have seen similar controversy with styles like surrealism and minimalism in art. Many viewers of the arts can be quick to jump to criticize or question works when presented with something that appears unsophisticated or overly simplistic, often without the full understanding of the context of the work or the technique used.

In regard to this piece, I chose to paint a page of the Mondestrunken score to contrast the cacophonous audio with the beauty and bold geometric nature of the score’s visual presence.