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Illustration and Print
Creative Guts, 2024
Creative Guts, 2024
infinitely repeating print, digital
screen print, 18 x 13 inches
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This infinite print showcases a feeling of creative expulsion, as if through the mouth of the creative mind. The shapes and icons blend together to create a soup of doodles, emotions, and bursts of joy, screaming for a place within the larger community. The expressive shape language and wistfulness of the symbols and icons themselves serve as both limiters and movement-drivers for the piece, when the world places limited focus on the lighthearted, silly forms of creativity.
Inchwormania, 2025
Inchwormania, 2025
Fruitopia Cover Insert, 2025
Fruitopia Cover Insert, 2025
Things I Wear When I Feel Good About Myself: a Mini Paper Doll Collection, 2024
Things I Wear When I Feel Good About Myself: a Mini Paper Doll Collection, 2024
2 x 3 inches (or 8 x 3 inches)
As part of a mass zine project, I created a fold out paper doll book with ready-to-cut illustrations of items from my personal closet--things I personally wear when I feel good about myself.
The back of the zine on the first edition included a QR code that linked to a Google Form that allowed readers to share the things they wear when they feel good about themselves with the artist.
Unfamiliar Faces, 2023
Unfamiliar Faces, 2023
Created originally as an exercise in painting passersby, this work serves as a time-capsule memory that reflects the diverse community of my peers during my time at Carnegie Mellon University. CMU is home to many passionate, driven, and of course, hard-working students pursuing high-level academic feats, but all of these students have personal identities that the world of academia often ignores or hides. Connecting with the faces of the future, those yet still unfamiliar to the masses, faces that one day may belong to award-winning performers and state-of-the-art technology drivers.
Scotty Says...
Scotty Says...
2025, created for CMU partnerships with Depop
Shop Local (at the Soup Store)
Shop Local (at the Soup Store)
2025, created for personal pop-ups on CMU campus
Jewelry Design
Jewelry Design
Dolls and Puppets/Miniatures/Prop Fabrication
Dolls and Puppets/Miniatures/Prop Fabrication
(Left) Pomela's Playhouse, the physical set and modular dollhouse bedroom where Pomela the Pomegranate lives and spends her days (usually chatting on the phone with her best friend Cherrie).
(Right) Pomela the Pomegranate, a 1:6 scale doll/puppet.
This short stop-motion animation explores Pomela's process of finding an outfit for Fruitopia's event of the year, the annual Fruitcoming Dance.
April 2023
Pomela the Pomegranate - The Details
Pomela's head is made of felted wool and her skin is soft fleece stuffed with polyfil. This skin hides her inner skeleton, which is made of flexible wire and epoxy sculpt. She wears cotton and lace, and her clothes use velcro, snap closures, elastic, and decorative buttons. She stands at a height of about 12 inches, similar to most playline fashion dolls.
She works as a puppet for stop-motion films and static photography as well as a fine art doll for display or gentle play.
Pomela belongs to the land of Fruitopia, where fruit people of all varieties come together to live happily, creating a cornucopia of culture in the nation's namesake city.
The land of Fruitopia will continue to be explored through other dolls, rooms, and a comic adaptation, featuring characters like Azuly the Blueberry, Anna the Banana, Orla the Orange, Cherrie the Cherry, and Pearri the Pear. This concept is the basis for my Senior BXA Capstone project at Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 2025.
3 a.m. at Azuly's
3 a.m. at Azuly's
3 a.m. at Azuly's is the second instalment in the Fruitopia Universe, introducing the titular character, Azuly the Blueberry.
Azuly is a famous author with a chronic procrastination problem, and this short showcases her typical nighttime routine...avoiding her writing and finding other, more creative ways to spend her time.
I continue to keep in touch with my inner child by tailoring custom garments for dolls and puppets, mostly using scrap fabrics, minimizing my textile waste and indulging in my love for play. I love to combine vintage fabrics with modern silhouettes and trends (and vice versa) for a timeless, charming, and fun look.
Katie
December 2022
A hand-held puppet made completely by hand, from scratch. I used foam, hot glue, felt, fabric, polyfill, yarn, and flexible wire in the fingers and wrists for maximum poseability.
Katie can be puppeteered through the torso with hand control of the mouth and neck and through wire rods in the arms.
Her face has light blush and lip details and her four fingernails sport purple polish--to match her outfit, of course.
Animation
Animation
Live Action Student Films
Live Action Student Films
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