Thea Traw's Senior Project: Art in Nature

Wow. I can’t believe this was our last week of senior projects. The unceasing forward progress of time continues to astound me :) It’s a bittersweet time. Anyway, for this final post, I’ve been tasked with a self-reflection, specifically regarding my goals that I set in the first week. So, here we go! I had three primary goals for this project. The first was to experiment with a variety of mediums and techniques. I think that I probably could have gone a lot further with this goal, but I did end up fulfilling it in some ways. While I mainly did use mediums I felt comfortable and inspired in (photography, poetry), I also worked in pen and some watercolor-esque paints (a hybrid type I found in my house), which are not my typical go-tos. There was also the additional aspect of working on-site, which I have not really done before (except photography) so that was new and exciting. My second goal was to continue developing/identifying my artistic style. I would say that undertaking this proj...

Welcome back! The weather this week has been beautiful, so that has definitely been conducive to my work. So, yay! Anyway, here’s a story--again, it’s a pretty small thing. As I’m sure it is with some of you, parallel parking is a somewhat intimidating endeavor to undertake. It is for me, at least. However, I did find success--albeit after probably ten back-and-forths...so I would not necessarily give myself a high score on it, but it was functional. What was kind of amusing about this also was that there was this dad and his kid getting stuff from their car (which was parked directly in front of the spot I was trying to park in) while I was struggling to properly maneuver. The judgmental eyes of a child watching you parallel park are a pretty good incentive to succeed haha. After that adventure though, I had forgotten to pay for my parking at one of the meters, so I had to turn around (I had kind of booked it away from the scene of the crime...well, kind of) and walk all the way back....