I have a ton of tote bags, so when I discovered an opportunity to design my own canvas bag, I jumped at the chance.  I’m ashamed to say that I’ve never been to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum the past two years I’ve been in Ithaca, but I’m glad I went today.

One of the museum coordinators, Annmarie was such a lovely and patient teacher; she let us dip our toes into screen printing by showing some examples by artists around the museum and later letting us have a try.  I love how she encouraged us to step outside our comfort zone and play around with whatever ideas we had.  When creating the stencils, I had an image in mind, but I eventually switched over to a much simpler shape, the beloved triangle.  Magdala asked for the meaning behind our art, and honestly I just really like triangles.  However, if I were to put some deep meaning to it, I guess it’d be about how I love watching and reading about conspiracy theories (especially murder cases) and how the triangles symbolize the illuminati.  Also, the two outer fading triangles was never part of the plan, but I enjoyed experimenting it looked kind of cool.

It was extremely satisfying to press the ink onto the canvas bag and peel away the screen to reveal the resulting image.  I love how this experience gave me a break from all the problem sets and prelims coming up.  It was nice just to focus my attention on something else and tickling my creative side.