Nature is something that I have been interested in my entire life. It is the one thing I have admired and fawned over the most, which often leads to new wonderings I have about nature. The impact that nature has had on my life and my identity is what originated the idea for the focus of this exhibition. Through this exhibition, I wanted to express the different emotions that nature can evoke within a person and how some ideas are a lot deeper and more meaningful than they are thought on the surface. I wanted to also see how I can represent nature through different techniques and materials. I decided to explore these representations with watercolor, pen, linoleum print, and even unconventional materials such as thread to ensure the exploring of the full spectrum and make sure that every possible perspective is included.

I decided to group certain works together because they have a common factor connecting them to each other more than to other pieces. These groupings also represent one idea or concept in different ways, showing different possible perspectives one might have of that idea or concept. I feel that purposefully grouping certain artworks together adds to each of the piece's meaning and the group as a whole can reflect something different than one piece from the group. This broadens my exploration of nature and has caused me to make new discoveries I would not have otherwise made if I had kept all of my pieces separated. I knew that nature is something so broad and probably can never be fully explored since nature is neverending and is comprised of so many different things such as fields, forests, skies, and even space. But putting this exhibition together and looking at my pieces all together in one place has really made me realize how extensive and diverse nature is, which I find beautiful and phenomenal. This exhibition has helped me explore so many ideas, but it has also given me so many new questions and ideas I would want to potentially explore in the future.