AMIDST THE BRAMBLES was my MFA project at the University of Florida, presented in the spring of 2022. The body of work was an accumulation of themes and symbols compiled over my three years at the university, and accompanied by all of the sketchbooks and journals that contained plans, drawings, and journal entries pertaining to the development of those ideas across 2019-2022.

It is a series of 14 printed images; 12 woodcuts and 2 zinc etchings; displayed alongside a collection of 10 sketchbooks, which serve as supplemental information to the loosely defined narrative across the panels.

The work explores ideas of existentialism and the search for purpose, feelings of longing and desire for a sense-of-self, and the symbology of my own life and upbringing in the evangelical south, with a cultural passion for story telling and semi-comedic comic art.