Junior "Thesis" @SVA! Marie Antoinette

I finally got around to scanning my Junior "thesis"/Junior project from back in April!

Our theme was "Kings and Queens" and these were our guidelines:

"The most important rule this year is that your character (or characters) MUST BE REAL!  They must have drawn breath!  Therefore legendary, mythic or imaginary characters are not to be used.  However, they do not have to be actual monarchs.  If you wish, you can design projects around those who are the kings and queens of their field: Edison as the king of inventors, Elvis as the king of Rock and Roll, Sarah Bernhardt as the queen of the stage, etc."

We had the entire academic year to complete eight finished works.  I went with a really obscure queen, Marie Antoinette...you may have heard about her before, probably not though...

Medium: Dip pen and ink.

 

In Sam Weber's class, one of the assignments we had to do entailed creating a garden for a deceased individual.  We had to think about what sort of plants, animals, and structures that would be found within.  I decided to go with my grandmother from Brazil and ended being overwhelmed by all of these beautiful memories I have from childhood, of when things weren't complicated, of family, food, and happiness.  So, I made two more pieces to go along with them..and created a mini-series of sorts; simple depictions of my childhood and my sweetest, fondest memories.
           

I never did work like this...overly obsessive, inundated in patterns, and dots. LOTS of DOTS...but Sam Weber noticed during an in-class assignment, that I seemed to enjoy it and encouraged me to embrace it. Thank you Sam!