For me, a class in photography was an interesting foray into a different form of thinking, as
photography urges both the creator and the audience to isolate subjects by capturing them in a framing device, in which semantics can be derived both from what is explicit and implicit. However, as a Senior in Industrial Design, I have learned to adapt my process to become proactive and resourceful when developing ideas; this dichotomy was one of the inspirations which led me to pursue this concept as my final series.

In this set, I wanted to play with the duality of conscious creation, and sub-conscious
action: in other words, I was performing a bout of Abstract Expressionism. It's most influential artists such as Isamu Noguchi, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko have all exhibited nihilistic, chaotic, or even idiosyncratic tendencies in their work. To this end, I aimed to capture the spontaneity of their technique, but contrast this with the unperturbed observation of a photographer. Tangentially, as I began to photograph my images, I became enamored by the luminosity of the color and the ever-sweeping and swirling semblance of the ink beckoning my gaze deeper into its phantasmagoria.