After my trip home for break a lot of things for my project have become much more clear. Before I was struggling a lot with what imagery I was going to focus on in each of my pieces. I was trying to think of pictures and symbols to represent my mother and I's relationship and continued to get stuck and more frustrated. So after this break I thought of trying to focus on certain memories that my mother and I hold that define our relationship. So this is my new plan of attack! For this project I will be exploring the personal and dynamic relationship I hold with my mother and by reflecting on specific memories, both positive and negative, I will create a series of mixed media pieces that define the relationship we have as mother and daughter. For ideas I was able to sit and journal with my mom and come up with numerous memories that we both have to influences my pieces. Here are some of the possible memories I will be looking at.


The first one was form when I was 5 years old. I was a little monster and threw the worst tantrums. So the particular memory is from a time when it got so bad that I made my mom cry in the bathroom while I was having a fit in the bedroom. 


Another memory is the day that my mom finally found out that she was pregnant with me. She was so excited because they had been trying for so long. This is a particular memory I don't remember but I somewhat important to our relationship.


Another memory is from a particular mother/daughter date that we had. We went to the movies and it was fun to just spend time with each other.


Another memory is a more recently occuring when from times that I call her on the phone to asking for advice or discuss a project for school and it ends in us arguing, handing up and than 5 minutes later calling to say that we were sorry. 


        These are just a few of the possible memories that I will use as inspiration for a series of prints. So jumping of from this point my next step is to start sketching images from these memories. I was hoping to get a jump start on all of this this past weekend but came down with the flu bug and was basically helpless for the past few days. So my next step is to do some sketches, start experimenting with color studies, painting with water colors and mixing them with prints. Also finishing the print I did on canvas previously to to see if there is any potential there. I have a lot of work to do before my presentation so this next week will be really busy but hopefully fun. Also this week I spent some time on my presentation for the review in a week. There is some more things that I need to figure out in the next few days and answers that I need to figure out to pull my entire project together. So now that I am feeling better I am ready to get to work and produce a lot for my presentation.