How life collects

It’s strange to think in my sophomore year of hight school I was asked to build a collage of junk material and then create a still-life sketch from it. I remember scouring my house and not being able to find anything so i went out to the barn. I ended up collecting a CD, soda can, piece of scrap tin, a ball of paper, and a piece of wood.

Maybe I felt everything had a purpose then but now i feel like i’ve collected too much out of impulse. It’s strange to think that the older I get the more junk I seem to find; Not only that but how much harder it becomes to keep junk separated from the rest.

Broken Human Skill

This is the last of my found works form High School – Drawing of a real human skull

This poor girl was a skeleton that was donated to Daniel Boon Area High School. She’s been drawn for the past 5-10 years and has been roughed up a bit. My class called her “skully” … original right … Her story is pretty interesting and unknown at the same time. I was told she was at one point a haunted house decoration and was painted with glow in the dark paint. The last owner before the HS was a young kid that used her as a science fair diorama where she was painted an iridescent of- white. Karen Shriner (art teacher) procured her and painted her back to a human bone-white and gave her a more suitable job as a figure drawing model.

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