JUNIOR SEMINAR
At Washington and Lee, students that are going to be presenting their senior studio art thesis in the senior art gallery showing participate in a course the prior year called Junior seminar. This course prepares those students by solidifying their medium of choice while allowing the students to experiment with other mediums in order to find their artistic voice.
LEUCOTHEA
This was my final project for a class leading up to my senior thesis called Junior Seminar. In this class, being pushed to use mediums that we wouldn't have been drawn to otherwise, we were pushed to discover exactly what kind of art we wanted to put into the world, what our goal as artists were.
In this piece, Leucothea, I discovered that I really aim to create stories with my art work. . By bringing out aspects of my illustration in a tangible form, I wanted the viewer to be involved physically—taking them away from the gallery space and allowing them to physically enter into my character’s world. Her name is Leucothea. She was taken prisoner during a war between rival tribes. Rather facing death than dishonor, she took control of her fate and jumped off a cliff into the frigid water. Her sprit became one with the water, creating this encapsulating cave preserving her completely.
