This 17 piece series was shown in part (10 pcs.) at my undergraduate art show from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Spring 2009. The initial exploration into this particular avenue of geometric patterning began in 2007; the actual series began in 2008.

This year, my focus reached almost singularly toward using pattern and color through series. I used traditional mathematical patterns as well as derivative patterns.

I deviated from my true passion only slightly with a disappointing survey of figure painting.

Throughout this year, my obsession with pattern blossomed exponentially to the point that even projects that were representational in subject became patterned in some aspect.

This year, I rekindled my adolescent love of crafts with a fibers course.

Largely though, through various series of drawings and paintings, I explored ideas including shadows, symbology, mathematics, and color optics.

At this time, my focus turned towards the exploration of fractal patterns with a quick foray into nude self-portraiture. This sketchbook also served as a diary into which I recorded a handful of odd dreams I had around that time.

During this short summer, I worked as a nanny on my break from school. Most of the drawings in this sketchbooks began as simple doodles that grew into complicated patterns almost compulsively.

In my second semester in college, I began to explore pattern and the human figure. This sketchbook also contains notes and thumbnail sketches for at least three larger projects

This year was my big year for experimentation in artistic media. Though never stepping completely away from drawing and painting, I took classes in sculpture, photography, and performance. In all aspects of creation at that time, my affinity for pattern and color was becoming increasingly more apparent.

This sketchbook is from my first semester in college at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It includes sharpie sketches of various subjects as well as notes from a larger project. It even has a drawing by classmate and fellow artist Chris Gallegos: www.chrisgallegos.com

My high school portfolio is filled with simple, sometimes sentimental ideas expressed by a young student honing her technical skills. These albums also contain projects from my first semester of college where I embraced the struggle of importance between ideas and techniques.

In this sketchbook, I largely was just learning to draw and shade with extreme accuracy using detailed photographs from books, magazines, etc. Some of the drawings were sketchbook assignments from high school drawing classes taught by my mentor Gary Siska.