I've done it! I graduated from SFAI with my MFA. Hooray! Now I can do whatever I want. I'm in sort of this dream-state right now where I'm all caught up in the excitement of my road trip and of moving to another place. A place where things will be less expensive. It's not my first choice of places to live, but as I'm always up for an adventure and refuse to see any landscape as inferior to others, I believe it will be just as interesting and exciting as living in SF or Indiana, or Germany. I can't wait to start carving out my little niche in OKC. I'll miss my sister though, that's why I wanted to post this image.
This etching is part of a series I sort of consider my crowning glory from my time at SFAI. It's a series of five etchings I made about my twin sister and I concerning our relationship and memories. Each image was made on top of the one before it (This is the second in the series). On the metal etching plate, I drew the image, etched it, printed it, then scraped it off and drew another one. It's kind of a long tedious process that entails lots of elbow grease but I love the way the process feeds into the images, the layers that are left underneath and how it kind of mimics the way memories build and layer up in your mind. There are also similarities to the multiplicity of twins; the reprinting of the image, the two colors, the overlap and turning of the images, not to mention what's contained in the images themselves. I'll post more from this series in the future...
