The initial impetus for my second studio project was the essay on Mierle Laderman Ukeles by Robert C. Morgan about her work with New York City’s sanitation department, Touch Sanitation. Her work encompasses some of the themes I hope to work with in my future, community, social work, and exploration of how “art” does not have an unchanging definition. With this project, I want to demonstrate “education” as a definition for art. When one considers the institution of education t

In response to my studies of semiotics and signs, I developed a concept that revolved around using music as a drawing medium. The final form of the sculpture changed but the concept/question remained the same throughout: How can music create an image without needing the intervention of the "artist's hand," and how do the drawing produced become signifiers for the songs that created them? Experimentation began with finding the right materials and testing out my ideas. The form