Senior Thesis

So far this summer I've begun to think about and work on my senior thesis, building off of the ideas I latched onto last semester. I've been writing a little about the work to flesh out my ideas, and sketching for some eventual pieces. More updates will hopefully be forthcoming, but until then here are some tidbits of what I have thus far:

Working Statement:

     In a certain sense, all art is about its maker. My art is about its maker in more than one sense.

     In my work I deal with my measure of consciousness (awareness) regarding my experiences. Sometimes the work is searching and sometimes the work is explaining, but it is always an attempt to understand the significance of my experience to myself and to my development as an individual. I have begun searching out my personal visual vocabulary, which I use in my work to revisit, reflect on, and reinterpret my life- from the events, to the feelings, to the people it contains- and what it all means to me in the moments of creation. At times, the work may coincidentally play to the universality of human experience, but typically its aim is solely the selfish, and specific. In a certain sense, all art is about its maker. My art is about its maker in every sense.

Allegory of Home series:

Charity:

all images and text © J. Timlin 2010

Sketchbook, Fall 2009 & Spring 2010

Here are some sketchbook pages from last semester, when I was at MICA, and taking the train into DC often for my internship.

Here are some more recent pages from the same book, from trips and wandering around Italy and Florence.

all images © Jeff Timlin 2010

Some studies

Ponte Rialto, Venezia by night.
Firenze from Piazzale Michelangelo.
Sketchbook page: Firenze and Venezia.

All images © J. Timlin 2010

The landscape of Florence

Some small watercolor drawings from up near San Miniato del Monte, and the Boboli Gardens.

All images © J. Timlin 2010