 Hey everyone, this is Jessica Hagman at Alden Library. We are on the third floor today and in just a moment I'm going to flip you around so you can see Hannah Truman who is Has an art exhibit up on the third floor that you should definitely take a look at the next time you're here So I'm gonna have to flip the camera Okay, hi Hannah Could you tell us what major you are and what program you're what you're studying here? Yeah, so I am a sophomore and the school of art was designed At the end of this year I will apply to a specific area in school But I'm going to apply to painting in ceramics and see what I want to do from there I'm also a minor in psychology because I want to do art therapy in the end Awesome, so so this is your artists at Alden exhibit. It looks like it's ball paintings, right? Yes, okay, okay, which one would you want to tell us about first? We can talk about this one. Okay, this is the biggest one, right? Yes, it's my favorite one A lot of this work is focusing on things about me first before I go off and try to help other people with their situations So this is actually a painting of myself twice. It's a little abstract in but just to sort of look at myself in a way that I finally appreciate you who I am and Just like body positivity and things like that so Kind of emotions around that and while I was painting it it came to that appreciation where as so it was more about the process How long does it take you to do something this size? Oh, wow, okay, it was at a deadline for a class as well, so And what kind of this is probably betraying my lack of art knowledge, but what kind of paint are we using here? Oh, so you built this Which one would you like to talk about next? Okay It's more to reflect on the memory of him and He passed away last January so And I was doing this at the beginning of last semester, so it was still kind of fresh Just thinking about what he saw through because he's also a veteran and he tells stories after stories stories of He's Here he was probably 96 years old going on 97 as he would say So, yeah, that's the backstory behind this one here. It's also acrylic Then in black and white to be sort of a memory situation is the the pattern intended to be I guess I can see both kind of Like like an 8-bit style or is it represent camouflage or like what's the is there a style there Would you like to tell us anything else over here? Yeah They were just studies Evaluation of time so they were studies on different objects Which some I then used in a later piece look at your next And I was just looking at things like these are my ballet slippers for my first year of ballet They're old torn up being broken They just wanted to look at that and study them in that way Also, this hourglass came from my great-grandfather's house And it seats in our kitchen. It's just kind of a constant reminder of him and our time here And the top one there is a little figurine that's a part of like birthday train, but it's like the very start of it It's like looking at the start of my life and how time moves And that's done in oil painting Those were done in each one Do you usually sit down and do the all them once or do you tend to kind of leave and come back? You can tell I've never taken our class Right Yeah, I'm glad we get to see this process we hear about research processes a lot, but this is a different type of process It's great to see that Yeah How about these two over here Oh, so those are the same three objects Okay Within that week Tell a lot of family history goes into your work At least the stuff is largely based on my experiences. So it's hard to ask people to understand and relate to something so personal, but It's kind of a process and I hope that by looking at that process that other people And I think when you when you talk about it, too It's such a universal idea of time and these family things once you say what those are it's a lot easier to really All right, so do we have one more of them this last is this a self-portrait? Yes, it was sort of based off of a picture of me When I went and started this off I wanted to do the same style as like the hands where it's a little more and the large one here Where it's broken up into color watches, I guess but As I was doing this one this one is in oil as well I was kind of trying each one of them at different times, but um Yeah, so I just sort of heightened different aspects of myself and How I see myself at different points of time actually like This one I did over the last like three weeks of break and like over that break like I broke out Like all of these different things that like I see is like damaging me, but other things like I like eyes a lot, so Different situations like that and I'm wondering How how much that ice how ice like self-identify and how I see myself perceive myself and how that can influence the way I make And I am a lover of flowers You said you did this over break were you like at your family's home or did you were you on campus? So I did this in my kitchen How do you keep it safe in the car if you're like Here Is that does that color go on last is that why it was Oils take long to dry to begin with Much longer than acrylics acrylics dry it like almost instantly unless you add another medium to them And that's the same with these like it can go the opposite way around oils take Significantly longer to dry, which is what you can go back to them but I Just didn't add the same amount of Quick to dry stuff to it You said you just got glasses would you add those to the to the self-portrait if you Okay, I don't know. I feel like at this point it would kind of Be a disconnect between the two Maybe I'll do another one I think it takes time to integrate that I don't know. There's such a strong marker. I think I just got new glasses too So new ones. I've had long glasses for a long time, but it's such a strong facial thing And we have some you did you pick out these books? So what kind of what books do we have here? A lot of books about the modern women This one I Woman artist Georgia O'Keefe and it also has the deer antler just convenient connection So modern women Georgia O'Keefe Woman painters and then the one on the end there is just women in Impressionism And it's an interesting topic to think about the difference between a woman painting a woman painting women and men painting women Just like how it can be sexualized in one manner and have to be appreciated another and things like that Which is something I'm starting to get into now And that's what it's free to call it if you actually read it into her work It's a lot of exploring Exploration which is the title of my show here And the cover is very like memorial like you're thinking of memories in the past Time that into here as well When you're as you're studying and thinking about how you want to do your own art Do you spend a lot of time looking at other? Art or like what is that process like change for me over the years like in the past like in high school? I would look at Pinterest and kind of just getting ideas from that but a lot of my research now is Looking into the symbolism of things and how I can like add layers to Like it can be beautiful, but it can also mean so much if you actually look at What the yellow to easy and be means and things like that It's kind of making the work more complex more than just what it looks like great Is there anything else we should know about your exhibit before? Before we sign off I guess Sorry I guess I just People look at it and think about how it applies to them in some way or another So just to I'm gonna do a quick little Yeah, so people can see where we are. So this is a third floor Before you get to the oversized books, and I'm gonna just pan across the whole collection here again All right, and thanks to Hannah so much for taking the time to tell us about your collection I can tell it something that means a lot to you and has a lot of personal Personal experience to it. So thank you so much for putting up the exhibit and talking to us And I'm sure if you want to know more you can come and look at the exhibit or talk to Hannah if you'd like and Alright, we're gonna sign off now. Thanks everyone