Illustartion BFA Thesis

Everything in This Room Right Now is a Part of Me
Series of Six Woodblock Relief Prints


I’ve never been able to pin down the spellbinding nature of music—how a song can carry you back to a moment, a person, a place. This project began with that unshakable feeling: the way sound, and the inanimate, becomes memory.

This project explores how physical objects can carry memory across time. Inspired by years of concert-going, collecting music, and navigating the loss of someone close to me, Everything in This Room Right Now is a Part of Me reflects on the way music and artifacts become embedded in our lives and relationships.

I’ve created a series of images through woodcut relief printing—each piece a visual response to a song or moment that holds personal weight. The physicality of the process mirrors the emotional imprint music can leave: each carved line like a groove in vinyl, each print a snapshot of feeling. In exploring the tactile nature of printmaking, this project became a personal meditation on memory through the medium’s own rhythmic, reflective process.

This work is an ode to physical media, to DIY music culture, to things you can hold in your hand that still manage to hold you back.

Through sound, image, and touch, I hope this series conveys something universal, serving as a vessel for memory, and a companion through grief.

Epigraph - As I sit in my room, looking at the posters on my wall, the tapes on my dresser, hearing the songs from my headphones, I realize: everything in this room right now is a part of you—and a part of me.