With this project, I hoped to recreate something creative, funky, and with a cartoon vibe; something that echoed the Disney-filled, colorful, 2-dimensional animated worlds of my childhood: a clock that represented a not-so hidden part of my personality :)

The picture of the It's a Small World display is below, and what I loved most about it is the clear definition of color and shape. I wanted to be able to specifically replicate that nature in my piece. …

I was inspired by various geometric forms that I saw online. I tend to like the extremes so very organic shapes or very rigid geometric 1980s shapes. The most appealing one to me was the geometric forms in Native American art and beadwork such as this: 

I drew out different ways I could represent the intricate patterns. At first I explored more traditional forms so a…

The inspiration for my project came from my love of Joan Miró’s artwork. When I was an undergrad, I spent a year abroad in Madrid, Spain and that’s when I first discovered the acclaimed Catalan painter from Barcelona.

Figure 1. “The Gold of the Azure” (1967). Oil on Canvas. Fundació Joan…