"This object was created with the ideas and aspirations of creativity, imagination, and engineering. This piece could be a model for a larger structure, be used as an everyday decoration, for a child's attention, and much more. Peers have mentioned how the piece reminiscences activity cubes for children given its many varied textures and bits, and bright eye-catching colors. Upon interaction with the piece, people will notice how the object has a light jingle, and bells ring inside to help create an imaginative motif. Others have also mentioned how this piece could be a model for a full-scale structure placed in a park, campus, or cityscape. Many areas could provide shade, seating, and photo opportunities. Its nature is to be ever creatively expanding with ideas, it brings to life the feelings of happiness, childhood, nostalgia, and joy. This piece could be recreated to be any of the examples listed above, or something entirely different. Every side and edge of this piece was created to hold the essence of creativity. There is no right or left side, no upside or downside, it is meant to be held and experienced. So I ask the reader, what do you see?" -Amy Loveless

"One hand is healthy, painted to depict the artist's real hand, although one side has darkness emerging from a crack in the pinky finger, spreading down the palm to the other fingers. The drips of black and red emanate from the skin because of the wound created by this piece of string. In this piece, the string represents control and manipulation, puppetry, and trying to play and direct someone's actions, emotions, or feelings. There are five strung points of contact from the charcoal-colored hand, but only one is attached to the healthy hand. By taking a step back, you will notice how the healthy hand is slightly pulling backward, away from the negative, while the other is trying to close in, barely reaching, just out of its grasp. This hand looks very unhealthy, covered in black and red, and wounds from all the cracked fingers. There are drips of red and black from each fingertip, where you can barely view the original hand color. The negativity and toxic behavior have infected this hand and are infecting the string, turning the innocent white, loving relationship, into a dark, black, toxic relationship."

The flowers surrounding the healthy hand are bright, open, and full of life. The florals around the unhealthy hand are dark, sharper, blackening, and decaying. The flowers have black centers and seem wilted, the leaves have holes and spores growing, slowly fading to the healthy leaves around the opposite hand. Looking closely, the leaves around the center are infected along the edges. The florals at the base are covered in a dark green felt, splattered lightly with black paint. This imagery represents mold. In real life, mold forms where there is too much moisture, mold is negative. In this sculpture, mold forms from the negativity in this relationship. Around the base of the healthy flowers are small spots of mold, but not nearly as many as the opposing hand. This piece sheds light on how damaging a toxic relationship can be to one or both parties. Most often one party leads the other. In this analogical piece, we can view the differences in people through color and object archetypes, representation, and imagery.

Consciousness, Chance, Change, August 2023

The idea of this piece is how sometimes what you know best is actually hurting you the most, and although change can be scary, in the end, you'll be brighter and more colorful and shine more than you did before. This is shown through the progression of the hues and colors in the butterfly wings, and the lack of the color black from the shift, left to right. After experimenting with different watercolor techniques, I found that a spray bottle with two parts water and one part of white acrylic paint, shaken, created the best result on degenerating the black butterflies. Spraying the water mixture on the watercolor pigment created the base of the butterflies, and using markers and paint created the dots and markings on the wings. Using Cricut Joy and their online design tool, I was able to create a pattern for the small and large butterflies. I came to the conclusion of using three separate canvases' to demonstrate the three different stages we take in changing ourselves in these situations, Consciousness, Chance, and Change.