One year and six months have passed since I last stepped off a large ferry onto a little island. With every day, my nostalgia grows. I close my eyes and smell the salty air of long days on a dock with a friend of fifteen years. These days are full of laughter and longing for endless summers. We don’t know of days better than these, but we do know they’re coming to an end, if only just for now. I close my eyes and I see a thrift store puzzle of the World on the dining table, my mother and I working to complete it again, fully aware that we’re missing Portugal. Our yearly tradition. I close my eyes and I hear my siblings, Leslie playing guitar and Olivia smiling as she sings Johnny Cash. I feel safe in every moment of a teenaged summertime.

                  

 In this iteration of ‘Adolescent Frivolity’ I am working to evoke similar emotions as in my previous works, through much simpler lines and a far more limited color palette. I feel as though I was creating my past work through the eyes of my adolescent self, and the natural progression of this project has taken me to gradually look at these ideas through my current and more adult mindset. Looking back on memories rather than living in them. Through the incorporation of collaged photographs, watercolor studies and handwoven work, particularly through tapestry techniques., I have begun to explore this concept through a new set of eyes.