One of my best childhood friends passed away in a car accident early this morning. I've had a really hard time being productive today. It's difficult working on a project that has to do with death when something like this happens.

Now I'm going to try to finish this project for her and not let my emotions stop me from working any longer. Rest easy, Jen. This is for you.

final production: the beginning

Layout for final presentation:

I will explain my project with a narrative about death and how people deal with it. Beginning with complete confusion and denial, to contemplation and finally to acceptance and understanding. My drawings will integrate the weaving/sliding elements that were in my extraordinary drawing; the layout of all the drawings will do this as well.

Some ideas on how to approach the different drawings...

Basic plan drawing, almost completed. I am thinking about adding color to identify how spaces are used. Next step is weaving in one of Joaquín Torres García's artworks. I am hoping that once they are weaved together, there will be a clear connection between my composition and his. The image I will most likely use is pictured below my drawing.

This is my atmospheric drawing of a contemplative space, not quite finished. I will likely collage water in and hope to draw a tree that doesn't look terrible. Out of my four perspectives that will be approached in this style, I will collage in pages from my book as the sky, to represent thoughts/contemplation.

Extraordinary Drawing

Originally I was inspired by some abstract/sketchy drawings for my extraordinary drawing. But when looking through the books Luis reserved for us to scan the ones I was inspired by, I came across this collage and decided I would change my drawing type to a collage.

I searched for more collage photography online and came across David Hockney. His photography focused more on distortion of the images than the above image that I originally found...a quality that I was really drawn to.

I drew a couple of quick perspectives of my addition with the original columbarium in the background, and this is the one that I chose to go with...

I then copied and cut up this image in many different ways to see what worked the best for what I wanted to portray in my drawing. I decided that long vertical strips worked best and help emphasize the weaving of my overhead structure. I then organized the strips and transferred them onto one sheet of paper and cut out the sky and where the existing columbarium is. I attached images of the existing building to each "strip" and then attached different images of the sky to emphasize the different strips.