ARTWORK > MFA 2nd Year Showcase

Did you play your cards right?
Did you play your cards right?
Stoneware, mid-range glazes, and yarn
2023
$700
When wishes turned to prayers
When wishes turned to prayers
Stoneware, mid-range glazes, and yarn
2023
$500
We ain't ever gettin that ball back
We ain't ever gettin that ball back
Stoneware, mid-range glazes, iron chain
2023
$600
The flowers would never lie to me
The flowers would never lie to me
Canvas, acrylic paint, and yarn
2023
$700
I think forever snuck up on us
I think forever snuck up on us
Acrylic, canvas, polymer clay, and yarn
2023
$300
Camaraderie and Bug Bites
Camaraderie and Bug Bites
Acrylic, ink, colored pencil, yarn, and paper
2023
$700
If I could write you a letter, this is what it'd say
If I could write you a letter, this is what it'd say
Acrylic, ink, colored pencil, paper, and yarn
30 x 20"
2023
$700

The work shown in this exhibition was all completed over the summer of 2023 as a transitional step between the research done during the first year of the SMU MFA program and where I wanted to go forward as I entered my second, and final, year of the MFA program.

This work centers around girlhood, summer camps, sleepovers, and the loss of close childhood friends. Just as I parted with my childhood friends, I then parted with this part of my research. Moving forward, the focus shifted from childhood nostalgia to my identity as a biracial/mixed-race woman. A topic that I have been avoiding for years in my work out of fear and anxiety.