Finding Pattern, Defining Pattern

This work was intentionally created and directed for this open-ended print show that had two requirements. First, for it to be print-based either digital, screen, lithography, and so forth. The second being that the work was directed towards the theme of pattern in some way or other.

My piece directed itself to the pattern of personal habits. How students around campus act and treat every small ephemera object they interact with on a daily basis. The initial background was a visual pattern influenced by "smell-me" marker caps, but I destroyed it by layering both visual and physical objects that are commonly thrown away instead of recycled.
I headlined the piece with "Reuse Your Surroundings". Below I included a summary subtitle with a direct caption underneath.

On the bottom it states:
Expand. Save. And. Recreate. Recycling and composting activities have already prevented about 64 million tuns of material from ending up in landfills and incinerators since 1999. Will you join the revolution?

This was part of a student print exhibit in the Devries Gallery at Western Michigan University in Spring 2008. This was a self-intiated, personal project.