Student Work
High School - Drawing B (grades 9-12) Spring 2026
Puzzle Self-Portraits - Students were instructed to create fragmented self-portraits inspired by the collage portraits of Kensuke Koike.
First, students experimented by creating thumbnails with different collage techniques based on Koike's 4 main methods: swapping, extracting, expanding, reducing.
Then, students made final, full-sized collage self-portrait compositions. On the back, they wrote a short statement describing how they fragmented their image, and what it says about their identity, feelings, or point-of-view.
"I cut my face in a square shape and cut it up into smaller squares then scrambled the squares up. This represents complex emotions while trying to grasp identity and cope with immense insecurity. Thoughts are scrambled, the state of mind is rather chaotic and I used the scrambling of the squares to further illustrate that..."
Finally, students created their final value drawings, using the grid technique to accurately represent their collage compositions.
CalArts Teaching Fellowship
Fall 2020
The following works were made by students in my multi-media production class "The Failed Image" taught at California Institute of the Arts, fall 2020. The students were a mix of undergraduate and graduate students from across disciplines within the institute. The syllabus can be found here and the individual project prompt sheets here.
