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Dress #32
Pretty in Pink Dress
colored pencil and ink
2012
Dress #31
High Society Abstract Dress
colored pencil and ink
2012
Dress #30
Pick Me Dress
colored pencil and ink
2012
Dress #29
Leather & Lace Flower Dress
colored pencil and ink
2012
Dress #28
Rainbow Lace Dress
colored pencil and ink
2012
Dress #26
Ascending Sunset Dress
colored pencil and ink
2012
Dress #25
Go Boom Dress
colored pencil and ink
2012
Dress #24
Business Savvy in Satin Dress
colored pencil and ink
2012
Dress #23
Coach Tour Dress
colored pencil and ink
2012
Dress #22
Sunlight Up My Life Dress
colored pencil and ink
2012
Dress #21
Pleats to Meet You Dress
colored pencil and ink
2012
Dress #20
Live and Learn Dress
colored pencil and ink
2012
Dress #19
Craft Dress
colored pencil and ink
2012
Dress #18
Blossom Day Soon Dress
colored pencil and ink
2012
Dress #17
Maritime Moxie Dress
colored pencil and ink
2012
Dress #16
Pocket Frock Dress
colored pencil and ink
2012
Dress #15
Holy Smokes Batman! Dress
colored pencil and ink
2011
Dress #14
Scent of Strawberries Dress
colored pencil and ink
2011
Dress #13
Know About You Dress
colored pencil and ink
2011
Dress #12
Palm Beach Promenade Dress
colored pencil and ink
2011
Dress #11
Too Much Fun Dress
colored pencil and ink
2011
Dress #9
Game Piece Dress
colored pencil and ink
2011
Dress #8
Impromptu Dance Party Dress
colored pencil and ink
2011
Dress #7
Portrait Perfect Dress
colored pencil and ink
2011
Dress #6
Bring May Flowers Dress
colored pencil and ink
2011
Dress #5
Grapefruit-y Cutie Dress
colored pencil and ink
2011
Dress #4 
Lavish Lounging Dress
colored pencil and ink
2011
Dress #3
Summer Wedding Dress
colored pencil and ink
2011
Dress #2
Souvenir or Far Dress
colored pencil and ink
2011
Dress #1
Yellow, Darling! Dress
colored pencil and ink
2011
Dagger Wings
colored pencil and ink on paper
2010
All Kinds of Knives
watercolor and ink on paper
2010
Long Clip Blade Wings
colored pencil and ink on paper
2010
Toothy Grin
ink on paper
2010
Diamond Cone
colored pencil and ink on paper
2010
Diamond & Daggers
colored pencil and ink on paper
2010
Punch
colored pencil and ink on paper
2010
Fixer-Upper
ink on paper
2010
Lower Grill
colored pencil and ink on paper
2010
Diamonds for Thieves
colored pencil and ink on paper
2010
Dimonz Tase Gooood
colored pencil and ink on paper
2010
Power Combo
colored pencil and ink on paper
2010
The One
Ink on paper
2010
Before and After
watercolor, colored pencil and ink on paper
2010
Family's In the Nephews
colored pencil on paper
2009
Flight of the Bumblebee
colored pencil on paper
2009
99 Red Balloons..98 Red Balloons..97..
colored pencil on paper
2009
From the Car Lot
colored pencil on paper
2009
Peter Pan Camp for Girls
colored pencil on paper
2009
Aww..
colored pencil on paper
2009
Very Approachable
colored pencil on paper
2009
Bicep
colored pencil on paper
2009
Outward Hound
colored pencil on paper
2009
It's My Party
colored pencil on paper
2009
Peeper
colored pencil on paper
2009
Look Up (vertical)
colored pencil on paper
2009
Guilty J
colored pencil on paper
2009
Pinecone, Wishbone, Fishbone
colored pencil on paper
2009
Right Before the End I Feel Small
colored pencil on paper
2009
Dress Up
colored pencil on paper
2009
Barbeque/ Barb
colored pencil on paper
Diptych
2009
Open-Closed/ His-Hers
colored pencil on paper
Diptych
2009
All That Matters
colored pencil on paper
2009
Celebrate Diversity!
colored pencil on paper
2009
Bronc-o-Fun
colored pencil on paper
2009
Scrambler/ Rubberneckers
colored pencil on paper
2009
Loose Cannon
colored pencil on paper
2009
Chicken 1, Hen
colored pencil on paper
Half of diptych
2009
Chicken 2, Cock
colored pencil on paper
Half of diptych
2009
Freeload
colored pencil on paper
2009
Look up
colored pencil on paper
2009
I Win
colored pencil on paper
2009
Together
colored pencil on paper
2009
Ready to Leave Home
colored pencil on paper
2009
Virgin Afterparty
colored pencil on paper
2009
I Rock for Us
colored pencil on paper
2009
Jokes
colored pencil on paper
2009
(Pinata says) Save Me
colored pencil on paper
2009
(Life Jacket says) Save Me
colored pencil on paper
2009
Rustangs Show Flyer
colored pencil and ink on paper
2014
Rustangs Show Flyer
pencil on paper
2014
Rustangs Show Flyer
colored pencil and ink on paper
2014
Rustangs Show Flyer
ink on paper
2013
Rustangs Show Flyer
ink on paper
2013
Rustangs Show Flyer
ink on paper
2013
Rustangs Show Flyer
mixed media
2012
Rustangs Show Flyer
colored pencil and ink
2012
Rustangs Show Flyer
pencil and ink on paper
2012
Rustangs Show Flyer
ink on paper
2011
Rustangs Show Flyer
pencil and ink on paper
2011
Rustangs Show Flyer
ink on paper
2011
Rustangs Show Flyer
ink on paper
2011
Rustangs Show Flyer
ink on paper
2010
To a Successful Future
white out and ink on paper
2009
What's Under the Blanket?
colored pencil and ink
2009
Victorian bust
pencil on paper
2009
99 cents envelope
colored pencil and brown paper bag
2009
Goodbye, 2,000-hate. Hello, 2,000-fine envelope
colored pencil and brown paper bag
2009
Heart Beats envelope
colored pencil and brown paper bag
2008
Field Flowers envelope
colored pencil and brown paper bag
2008
Homemade envelope
colored pencil and brown paper bag
2008

DRESSES
This project was inspired by Wanda Petronski, the main character in "The Hundred Dresses" by Eleanor Estes, a poor and friendless Polish-American girl, who claims to own 100 dresses. Her effort to divert her peers' attention away from the single blue tattered dress she wears to school every day through drawing each fictitious dress wins her first place in the drawing contest and the awe of her classmates. The drawn dresses in this project are also like Wanda's--though their real counterparts are not necessarily within reach, each garment is inherited.

BALLOONS
When the string flows free and loose, as though an afterthought, a balloon is very ethereal, something celestial to look at. Heavenly and symbolic in this way, it seems to float where it pleases and represents a dream-like state. Yet, the route's uncertainty can change the destination, sometimes making it humorous or ironic.

When balloons are tied to something very concrete, palpable and weighted down by earthly dimensions, their embodiment becomes more tangible. Perhaps they represent an old goal or act as a distraction. Maybe they take the form of a seemingly innocent bystander or help reiterate a jovial mood.

In telling a story through a drawing, this subject's transformation becomes an amusing resource. Working with a brown background also gives way for color to pronounce itself as a critical part of the narrative. Collaboratively, I am intrigued by what curious course of events a balloon can find itself in, and am attempting to explore that notion here.