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This is the senior thesis I completed at The Ringling College of Art & Design! This story tells my true experiences such as graduating high school during the COVID pandemic, unlearning the inner hatred towards my own identity, and dealing with losing my childhood home due to the ongoing economic crisis. All the while being told through the lens of my weird orange dog fursona. Making this book was incredibly personal, and I plan on releasing the draft you're reading right now as an actual book in the near future.
"Flashbulb memories (FMs) are vivid, stable memories for the reception of arousing, consequential news " (Patrick S.R. Davidson & Elizabeth L. Glisky University of Arizona, USA.) This thesis talks about how using art as a coping mechanism, and surrounding yourself with artist communities as consistent support systems to help with inevitable change, is beneficial for yourself and those around you. I've always used art as a coping mechanism to process deaths in my family, nonstop moves across the country, and big changes in general, and this book shows that in great detail.
I used a medium of digital collage because I'm a suggestible human being who is a combination of everyone I've ever met. Knowing what I do now from my college experience, I would change a lot of my actions, but wouldn't trade the experience for anything. I think a big part of growing is looking back on your more formative years and cringing, learning from your mistakes, and moving forward.
NOTE: This book will only be available for free from May 1st until May 14h, 2026. After that, it will be available for purchase on this website and others!
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