In my Sustained Investigation, I tried to explore the intersection between the inside and the outside world. During the quarantine, I felt my world reduce to just my bedroom, and was constantly looking out my window.  The outside world seemed freeing and awe-inspiring, and I wanted to try to combine that sense of grandiosity with the more simple, domestic world. 

 

In my first few pieces, I try to show how this outside world is often seen from a distance and through screens, windows, and other methods of containment. As the pieces progress, I attempt to show the unique beauty of indoor scenes that are so often viewed as mundane and boring. In piece 8 I try to capture the way laundry seems to expand everywhere by connecting it with space, in pieces 9 and 13 I explore how closets and drawers feel like their own world, and use the bed in piece 15 to look at the different places we travel in our dreams. As my pieces continue the walls and indoor structures fall away, replaced by increasingly free and open landscapes and backgrounds.