After reading this prompt, I was compelled to explore parts of my childhood that held prominent images in my memories.

When I was younger, I lived alone in a tiny apartment with my mom. Being so young, I was blissfully unaware of how hard my mom worked to make ends meet as a seamstress. I remember my mom sewing in the living room while I sat on the ground and played with my dolls. The energy in our home was always very busy yet comfortable at the same time. My mom and I were very connected, even when we were simply sitting in a room focusing on our own tasks. I distinctly remember moments when I would play all day with the TV on in the background while my mom endlessly sewed behind me.

We had a lot of 70’s themes and tones in my house, like a vintage lava lamp with turquoise, purples and oranges. I also remember that we had a purple velvet couch that was falling apart, and a hutch that still remains in our house today. 

After examining childhood memories relating to 70's style, I wanted to relate that theme to my own inspiration drawn from psychedelic posters and album covers. I found it important to keep my line work clean and simple, as well as limit my color palette.

I mainly focused on playing with layout as well as using the negative space surrounding each subject. By doing this, I highlighted objects I visualized in my head when thinking of my childhood. I thought that seeing my memories from the perspective of my mom would be an interesting way of visual interpretation from the perspective of an adult.

My next step was to expand my idea into a series of 3 images that connected to each other. To do this, I focused on ways that I can break up the content from the first image and divide it into different sections.

Key points of Improvement 
- Scale and perception
- Abstraction between child and doll 
- Breaking up typographic lines
- Marrying illustration with type 

In this iteration, I planned to focus on different sizes in relation to my perception of scale as a child. With these changes, concepts remained connected to each other.

Typography began to take on a larger role in this piece, this time by interlacing itself into the environment and using the same stroke techniques I used in the illustrated images.

The final iteration was completely focused on connecting type to illustration by interlacing the style of lettering into its setting.