Heifer In a Huff, 2024
Oil clay, metal armature, and wood base
11 × 11 × 8 in
Heifer In a Huff captures a moment of failure as a cowboy is thrown from a heifer’s back. During the process, I reworked the original composition to shift the narrative from control to instability, using exaggerated gesture and weight distribution to emphasize motion and tension. This project deepened my understanding of how sculptural form alone can communicate narrative through posture and balance.
Shepherd Staff, 2024
Oil clay, metal armature, and wood base
16 × 16 × 20 in
Shepherd Staff was developed from an imagined scene rather than direct reference, combining observations from Western ranch culture with anatomical studies of both horses and the human figure. As the composition evolved, I introduced the sheep and the shepherd’s staff to resolve spatial imbalance while reinforcing a directional relationship among the figures. This process deepened my understanding of how sculptural balance, gesture, and symbolic form can work together to create motion, narrative, and structural stability.
Mysterious Smile, 2023
Mixed media (bread crumbs, baking sheets, peanuts, rice paper, ink, calligraphy brushes, cotton and linen fabric, fiber felt)
60 × 54 in
Mysterious Smile originated from an intuitive response to everyday materials rather than a preplanned image. By assembling baking trays, bread crumbs, peanuts, and calligraphy materials into a facial structure, I explored how ordinary objects could be recontextualized to suggest expression and identity. Through this process, I became more attentive to how material choice, cultural reference, and subtle asymmetry can shape meaning and emotional resonance within a mixed media composition.
Rhythm of Life, 2024
Charcoal on paper
126 × 96 in
Rhythm of Life was developed from a series of charcoal figure studies made during my 2023 summer program at CCA. I selected twenty-eight drawings with strong gestural movement and organized them according to variations in scale and directional flow to establish a cohesive rhythm. Through this process, I examined how repetition and spatial sequencing can transform individual studies into a unified composition that emphasizes collective motion.
Additional studies and early works can be found in the archive.