Ramble (2024)

96-page Coptic bound book of pencil drawings and text, scanned, arranged digitally, and printed on grout gray French Paper and Strathmore toned tan

5 x 8"

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Ramble was my thesis project for an MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Drawn from experiences around St. Louis and structured around the definition of ramble, this book is a sequence of images ("ramble," to walk) and text ("ramble," to talk) that consider the relationship between humans and nature ("ramble," of plants growing over things). In writing this and a thesis essay, I found that illustration excites me most as a form of wandering and wayfinding—using text and image to meander through place and seek meaning in observations of everyday experience. The end goal is not a narrative, but simply the sense of moving through place in curiosity, speculation, or delight. 

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Ramble will be on view at the Morgan Conservatory's 2024 MFA student exhibition Expectations for Growth.