Growing up surrounded by the legal system, I have been influenced by the constant legal jargon and the different legal cases overheard during childhood. It is a system that knows no difference of age or innocence in it's relentless cause for justice and equality. Unfortunately, the young children swept up by the legal system are often times more effected by this crusade for justice than the adults are themselves.
When I began my series, I was solely focused on the mere act of filing the crucial moments of one's life away into a file cabinet. My initial pieces, such as Dances With Wolves and Criminal Minds showed crayon drawings of family members on file folders so as to portray the idea that the most formative years of our existence are filed away and forgotten. As my series began to evolve and develop, it occurred to me that the seemingly useless file folders were actually quite important to the legal profession. I began to incorporate a legal theme with each piece and collaged legal texts into my pieces that were appropriate with the specified theme. My drawings evolved to into graphite, purposely- incomplete drawings so as to further portray the loss of innocence of the children affected by the legal system. In my latest pieces, such as Checking In, Labor Pains, and Back in the USSR, I incorporated my drawings with vintage and antique photos and legal texts so that my pieces, which portray personal qualities or my own life, can be relevant to others. I designed the elements of each piece onto accordion file folders in order to create a sense of space.
When I began my series, I was solely focused on the mere act of filing the crucial moments of one's life away into a file cabinet. My initial pieces, such as Dances With Wolves and Criminal Minds showed crayon drawings of family members on file folders so as to portray the idea that the most formative years of our existence are filed away and forgotten. As my series began to evolve and develop, it occurred to me that the seemingly useless file folders were actually quite important to the legal profession. I began to incorporate a legal theme with each piece and collaged legal texts into my pieces that were appropriate with the specified theme. My drawings evolved to into graphite, purposely- incomplete drawings so as to further portray the loss of innocence of the children affected by the legal system. In my latest pieces, such as Checking In, Labor Pains, and Back in the USSR, I incorporated my drawings with vintage and antique photos and legal texts so that my pieces, which portray personal qualities or my own life, can be relevant to others. I designed the elements of each piece onto accordion file folders in order to create a sense of space.