I got my official start in Graphic Design during the 2020 Corona Virus Pandemic. I have always had a creative mind and an artistic eye, and with the extra time home during quarantine I decided to pivot from teaching to go back to school to receive formal training in the design world.
One of my early assignments was to create a book from found objects. I made this series of collages from magazine clipping as a memento to the difficulty and beauty I found in the the year 2020. The pages were then bound into a physical book, found in a take-one-leave-one library.
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