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Bioengineering PhD 2021 @melissaboswell_
A study on ephemeral hands, and an attempt to capture desperate grasping.
2014
Gesso on card.
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. This piece intends to instill a sense of curious serenity.
2016
Digital Visual Art
inspired by Mondays, morning showers, and an addiction to caffeine.
2019
Digital illustration
Winter 2017, I wrote my first song, ‘Something You Should Know’. After working on the lyrics, production and recording for two years here it is!
Link to Website
Song available on all streaming platforms (spotify, apple music)
A coloring pages for people to color and de-stress:) These pages are part of my project Coloring to Cope for the COVID-19 art grant.
2022
Digital
Oh! The Puppet Show begins! Here I am the puppet master presenting the BOSP Poland Overseas Seminar with my puppet show I made entirely from scratch!
2017
Photograph of Performance
A contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi fish as the two tones mesh following the flow of the fish.
2021
Oil Paint on Canvas
This image plays with scale, texture, and the physicality of water.
Color Film
SJC redesign – inspired by bold ‘Mod’ textiles, rooted in the London-based 1960’s ‘Mod’ fashion and music subculture centered around modern jazz.
Graphic Design and Print
This self-portrait draws on the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe that I, as a latina, have a deeply personal, non-religious, relationship with.
2018
This piece looks into the intersection of queerness and religion in the age of the internet and digital upbringing.
Interactive Digital Work
This work converts content into physical form. Charlie Chan, played by white actors in yellowface, investigates murders. But who is he really hurting?
Ink and print on wood
The mural shows Nangeli – an Ezhava Dalit woman, who had cut off her one breast in protest against the breast tax system in Travancore, Kerala.
Mural
Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.
Photoshop
Sky River is a digital reinterpretation of Japanese graphic designer Koichi Sato’s style based on minimalist forms and gradients.
Blender 3D render
Taken while walking in my hometown of Washington, D.C.
2020
Photograph
Fog drapes over the breathtaking mountain tops and diffuses across the road of Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park, creating a sense of quietude.
Acrylic on Canvas
This solo play premiered in Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022 and made its US debut in New York City where I won the award for ‘Best Emerging Actor’
2023
Photograph of Performance (solo play)
Inspired by individuality and body empowerment. Work focuses on abstraction of human form and color.
Acrylic on canvas
My piece comments on the movement of youth in Mexico towards narco culture and the dire implications it has for more traditional aspects the culture.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas