Undergraduate in Archaeology and History at the University of Southern California.
Since a very young age, I have been fascinated with historical visual culture. This started with doodles in notebooks which eventually turned into whole cities. As I drew my cities, I felt obliged to do as much research as possible to ensure historical authenticity, going out of my way to place landmarks in their correct locations. This was my way of traveling through time, so I could see what people in the past had seen. The drawings below would function as a catalyst, inspiring me to pursue higher education in history, archaeology, and classics.
London 1887 (2015) ink on paper
when I learned that Greco-Roman statues were actually painted, I realized how colorful life throughout history must have been, prompting me in 2014 to take AP Art Studio and pursue a French history portfolio were I explored the idea of historical reconstruction and populating these drawings with color.
View of Ile-de-la-Cite (2014)
in the early 14th century after the completion of Notre Dame de Paris
July 14, 1789, Bastille Day. (2014)
Dressed in black, Bernard-René Jordan de Launay is escorated away from the fortress.
Pecheurs devant Mont Saint-Michel, 2014
In French, pecheur means both sinner and fisherman, which partly inspired this drawing of the reconstruction of the full Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel with reconstructed nave and belltower.
Trial of Jacques de Molay (2014)
View of the Abbaye de Cluny (2016)