My senior art thesis at Vassar involved a lot of things: sleep paralysis, monsters, perceptions of the self, and the monstrous aspects we find and fear within ourselves -- or more specifically, what I fear in myself. In short, I took the idea of the "monster" and turned it inward, imagining my own "Monster," a representation of my fears, anxieties, doubts, and angers, as a separate, similar entity who continues to haunt me. The project required self reflection, experimentation, character and creature design, and stepping far outside of my comfort zone. In the end I ended up with fifty-some pieces sculpted, drawn, painted, and filmed, a selection of which you see below.

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If anyone is interested, I uploaded my full thesis on Vassar's website.