Megan Retana
Megan Retana ’19
My drawings reflect my immediate surroundings throughout the remainder of this remote course. I spent a lot of time reading and doing my assignments next to this lamp and table, and even more time looking at my sister. I drew the lamp and vase at the beginning of our remote learning with the intention of improving my photo-realistic skills and the portrait of my sister at the end.
Megan Retana ’19
Just breathe
My aleatory project concentrated on the ways in which we can and cannot document the breath. As a process that’s necessary for life and integral for meditation practice, my aleatory project attempts to document the subliminal power of the breath. For one sheet, I traced the line of my breath with pencil during a thirty minute meditation sit. On another, I sprinkled powdered charcoal on the edge of the paper and blew the fragments across the sheet. For the third sheet, I used no materials and just breathed on the surface during another meditation practice. The three sheets together reflect the invisible, meditative and powerful force of the breath.