This personal project is a representation of how my dad’s passing has altered the way I view time and life. I used my dad’s personal items and my memories of him as a vessel to express the bigger theme within my work. Let me start by explaining how my perspective of life and time was altered. I used to have a preconceived version of my life that I was going to live. I thought I’d go to college, get a job, and grow old. But after my dad passed, I realized life is short.. My goals altered significantly. since then, I have made a conscious effort to make sure I do things that make me feel fulfilled I also learned a paradox: life continues and life stops. At any moment, you can lose your life, and all the time you thought you had is gone. My time continues whether I want it to or not. I do what I need to do every day, not thinking about what effect his passing has had on me. But it’s still there, and I can still feel that pain.  

This project is made using woodblock prints. I was tasked with deciding where I wanted the blacks and whites to be and by doing so, had to produce an inverse of what I wanted the result to look like. Using wood carving tools and a carefully selected wood block I was able to print my design using ink and a printing press.