My inspiration stemmed from taking care of kids over the summer, at first, I wanted to depict their innocent-like perspectives which then transformed into an almost coming-of-age story. This story illustrates a different person's perspective in each piece accompanied by a pose poem to depict a little more about their identity. Although they range in age the pieces as well as the pose poem carry you through not just one person but five people’s lives.

 Josephine wall, an English fantasy painter who influenced my project, uses bubbles within some of her work to depict another realm. The piece that I focused on the most while creating this project is Seasons of Life, which illustrates a little girl’s life through bubbles. My composition however does not focus on one person entirely but shows a variety of different perspectives or in this case little memory bubbles.

 An Adolescent development psychology course helped influence my work and allowed me to structure it more by adding the individual’s social and cognitive development that’s impacted by their surroundings or what they see every day. The piece Goodbye, based on the book What Happened to Goodbyes displays this well since it reflects a pre-adolescent undergoing a reflection of self-identity. 

I used a variety of mixed media, some pieces like the Baltimore one started off with just colored pencils followed by acrylic paint for the background. Once that was made, I took a photo of that image printed and in addition printed digital images done on Procreate, and Modge podged it onto the glass. Once that was done, I used acrylic again to layer more bubbles on top of the glass. I followed this process throughout each composition to help communicate through layering an individual’s memory retrieval.