The Rooks

Materials: Collage, Gesso, Charcoal, Pen, Watercolor, Watercolor Pencils

A conceptual piece for my drawing class. I'm currently focusing on developing my first series, which is under the title "Haunted". By this, I mean that nagging feeling, as if a memory is on the tip of your tongue. A memory that is fading, but that you can't quite let go.

If you look closely, you can see the whole piece is drawn on top of a collage of encyclopedia pages, because sometimes we are haunted by other people's words and lives.

This particular one came about when I did an image search for "rook". Rooks are one of my favorite birds, ever. But the image search came back primarily with chess pieces, which was a use of the word I hadn't thought of.