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“Now your turn.” My grandfather would say as he slid the newly marked sheet of paper towards me. I started this series of work thinking about him, thinking about how his death affected my family, my mother, even my own views on life. And even though death has always been on my mind in one way or another, the making of this series put things into perspective. And as I said before, I do not believe in superstitions like fate, but rather the endlessly wonderful coincidences of the universe. While making The Feeling of Being OK I felt as if the universe made a thousand small yet incredibly wonderful things fall into my lap over and over. The journey I took in finding all of these photographs, torn pages, hand written notes, knick-knacks, and oddities changed me. Changed me in ways I’m not sure that I yet fully understand. I feel as if I’ve shared memories and moments with people I’ve never met, as if by some spectral means I walked in and out of their lives. The smell of dust and the slightly scratched surfaces of all my relics made the work feel more and more real the longer I stayed with them. When I put the final piece on the gallery wall, I felt as if I bumped into someone on the street I hadn’t seen in years. All the features and details seemed familiar, but instead of being in my imagination or scribbled on a sketchpad, it was right there in front of me.

I learned a lot about the work and myself as an artist during this final year. I realized the characters in As I Lay Dying are tragic not only because of their actions or choices or place in the world, they are tragic because they are human. And all of the intricate parts to my installation had their share of imperfections, making them seem almost human. I found that pieces came and went, orientations and arrangement shifted to fit into the space, but I knew that once I was in the gallery with everything it would somehow work out. I learned that patience and dedication pays off in the end. I was even able to print, mount, and hang all of my work with my own two hands,

something that makes me feel incredibly proud and accomplished, but if it wasn’t for my fellow grads and professors helping me along the way, I don’t think I could’ve gotten as far as I did. As I was putting up the vinyl lettering for the show’s title, I couldn’t help but think of my

grandfather. We always started playing Stump the Artist with a blank white sheet of paper, blank as the walls in the gallery, blank as an endless void. I’m not sure what the next blank sheet will be or exactly what direction my art will take me from here, but I know that I’ll be able to make something out of seemingly nothing, that there will be a solution somewhere out in the void.

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